Danger  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

The Third of May 1808 (1814) by Francisco de Goya

A film still from the Great Train Robbery, a robber shooting at the projection screen.

The Dragon Slaying the Companions of Cadmus 1588 by Goltzius

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Danger means being at risk or exposure to liable harm.

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 *domniārium (“authority, power”) from Latin dominus (“lord, master”).

Namesakes

• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

See also

• Cautionary tale
• Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
• Adrenaline
• Fear
• Thrill seeker
• Hazard
• Peril
• Menace
• Threat