danger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The possibility of being harmed or killed.

   The firefighters put their lives in danger to save the family.

2. 2
   noun

   Something or someone that may cause harm.

   Driving too fast is a danger to other people.

3. 3
   noun

   The chance that something bad or unwanted will happen.

   There is a real danger that prices will rise again.

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Simplified etymology

Danger derives ultimately from Latin dominus, meaning “lord.” From the early Middle Ages it meant “jurisdiction” or “power,” especially a lord’s power to cause harm; its principal modern sense developed in the later Middle Ages.

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.

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