danger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a dangerous place

   They moved out of danger.

2. 2
   noun

   the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury

   you are in no danger

3. 3
   noun

   a cause of pain or injury or loss

   They feared the dangers of traveling by air.

4. 4
   noun

   Exposure to likely harm; peril.

   There's plenty of danger in the desert.

5. 5
   noun

   An instance or cause of likely harm.

   1st September 1884, William Gladstone, Second Midlothian Speech Two territorial questions […] unsettled […] each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe.

6. 6
   noun

   Mischief.

   We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with.

7. 7
   noun

   The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

   The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.

8. 8
   noun

   Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

   You stand within his danger, do you not?

Etymology

From Middle English daunger (“power, dominion, peril”), from Anglo-Norman dangier, from Old French dangier, alteration of Old French dongier (due to association with Latin damnum (“damage”)) from Vulgar Latin *dominārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”). Displaced native Old English frēcennes.