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1. Exposure or vulnerability to harm, injury, or loss: The lives of Karen and Karl were in danger when the earthquake struck their area.
2. Someone or something that may cause harm, injury, or loss: The two boys were aware of the danger involved in mountain climbing and took as many precautions as they could before starting their trip.
3. Etymology: "power of a lord or master, jurisdiction", from Anglo-French daunger, from Old French dangier, "power to harm, mastery"; alteration of dongier, from Vulgar Latin dominarium, "power of a lord", from Latin dominus, "lord, master"; so, danger is said to be a parallel formation of dominion.
2. Someone or something that may cause harm, injury, or loss: The two boys were aware of the danger involved in mountain climbing and took as many precautions as they could before starting their trip.
3. Etymology: "power of a lord or master, jurisdiction", from Anglo-French daunger, from Old French dangier, "power to harm, mastery"; alteration of dongier, from Vulgar Latin dominarium, "power of a lord", from Latin dominus, "lord, master"; so, danger is said to be a parallel formation of dominion.
This entry is located in the following unit:
dom-, domo-, domat-, domato-
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“danger”
(Latin: test, tested; try; experiment; risk, danger, dangerous, hazardous)
(The U.S. is in danger of losing its status as the world's greatest talent magnet)
(a danger to both young and old)
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“danger”
serious danger
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
(page 20)