danger
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
danger/ˈdeɪnʤə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 the possibility of suffering harm or injury.
■ a cause of harm or injury.
- 2 the possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant: there was no danger of the champagne running out.
– phrases
be on (or off) the danger list Brit. be critically ill (or no longer critically ill).
be on (or off) the danger list Brit. be critically ill (or no longer critically ill).
– origin ME (in the sense ‘jurisdiction or power’, ‘power to harm’): from OFr. dangier, based on L. dominus ‘lord’.
'danger' also found in these Oxford entries:
alarm
- alarmist
- alert
- all-clear
- amulet
- asylum
- bell
- blind side
- caution
- chance
- clear
- close
- coast
- coastguard
- compromise
- control
- countermeasure
- courage
- cover
- crisis
- danger money
- defuse
- diffuse
- distress
- element
- endanger
- -er
- errand
- evacuate
- evacuee
- fear
- fit
- flee
- flirt
- forearm
- hazard
- hazard pay
- hot spot
- imperil
- insanitary
- jeopardy
- loon
- menace
- monition
- peril
- perilous
- pin
- pitfall
- pose
