danger
noun
1. the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury
- you are in no danger
- there was widespread danger of disease
Definition categories: state, condition, status
2. a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- there was a danger he would do the wrong thing
Definition categories: act, venture
3. a cause of pain or injury or loss
- he feared the dangers of traveling by air
Definition categories: state, cause
4. a dangerous place
- He moved out of danger
Definition categories: location, area, country
Sentences with danger as a noun:
- "You stand within his danger, do you not?" (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, 4:1:180)
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" (William Hazlitt, Table talk).
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (Times, 5 Sept. 3/2).
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2:1:17).
verb
1. (obsolete) To claim liability.
2. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
3. (obsolete) To run the risk.