dungeon
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈdʌn.dʒən/
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- Narrator 2: Meanwhile, Vivien and Arthur are in a dungeon, awaiting their fate.
They were like dungeons, cold, damp dungeons.
- They were like dungeons, cold, damp dungeons.
- She showed a small room, like a dungeon, cell floor, wall, ceiling, all rough stone, unfurnished, blank.
- She knew that the sound she heard must be a sentry, and by the dank smell of the darkness that she was underground in one of the little dungeon cells.
- Are a dungeon a prison for old men?
- Institutions can now move forward from being dungeons to being light structures.
- Looks like a man being stuck in a fucking dungeon and there's no fucking way out.
- So the door on the doors on this dungeon at the time was there was a little gap in them.
Examples
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In a moment, he'd be in the dungeon with those children.
Fiction book (2001) -
On their way to the dungeon, the boys stopped to eat.
Fiction book (1997) -
The source of that anger lay on the other side of the dungeon door.
Fiction book (1991) -
Over this city, flat and surrounded by walls like a dungeon.
Academic text (2016) -
I was basically in this dungeon in Brighton that my mate just decided to hire for the night.
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If Nick is here, he's probably being held in the dungeon.
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The bad news is that he's not quite as generous about letting you leave the dungeon unless you solve his puzzle.
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The Emperor scarcely looked at Lien as he ordered her thrown into the dungeon.
Fiction book (1995) -
She showed a small room, like a dungeon, cell floor, wall, ceiling, all rough stone, unfurnished, blank.
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The king's prisoners were held in a cold, damp dungeon beneath the castle.
Synonyms
549
5.6
A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
43
1.5
A small room in a prison where guards keep prisoners
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2.7
A small locked room in jail for holding a person
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8.6
A secure room in a castle used to hold prisoners
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9.9
A hidden prison cell under a trapdoor with an opening in the ceiling
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Dungeon comes from an old word donjon that meant the castle's 'main tower', and that word comes from Latin dominus meaning 'lord'. Over time people thought of the tower's dark rooms and prisons, so dungeon came to mean an underground prison cell.