Dungeon
['dʌn(d)ʒ(ə)n] or ['dʌndʒən]
Definition
(noun.) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined.
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Definition
(n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons.
(v. t.) To shut up in a dungeon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prison (especially one underground and dark).
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Definition
n. (orig.) the principal tower of a castle: a close dark prison: a cell under ground.—v.t. to confine in a dungeon.—n. Dun′geoner a gaoler.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being in a dungeon, foretells for you struggles with the vital affairs of life but by wise dealing you will disenthrall yourself of obstacles and the designs of enemies. For a woman this is a dark foreboding; by her wilful indiscretion she will lose her position among honorable people. To see a dungeon lighted up, portends that you are threatened with entanglements of which your better judgment warns you.
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Examples
- Instead he let him remain in his dungeon in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We loitered through dungeon after dungeon, away down into the living rock below the level of the sea, it seemed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Here, replied Front-de-Boeuf, here it must be delivered--weighed it must be--weighed and told down on this very dungeon floor. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I say the best prison is that which is made by the sexton--no dungeon like a church-vault! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A few days only elapsed, however, before we were dragged forth from our dungeon for the great games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The well at the bottom of the dungeon is piled with stones. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The doomed man was marched down a hall and out at a door-way into the covered Bridge of Sighs, through it and into the dungeon and unto his death. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His blind and aged father, and his gentle sister, lay in a noisome dungeon, while he enjoyed the free air, and the society of her whom he loved. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The air was dank, the dungeon-floor mildewed and icy cold; hunger came upon me too, and no sound reached me from without. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then slowly they retreated but this time with a strange grating sound and finally they disappeared in some black and distant recess of my dungeon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But here I cannot stay; I am still too near old haunts: so close under the dungeon, I can hear the prisoners moan. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was Juliet herself; pale and trembling she stood, a lamp in her hand, on the threshold of the dungeon, looking at me with wistful countenance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We reached the city of Warhoon after some three days march and I was immediately cast into a dungeon and heavily chained to the floor and walls. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Come where there is some freshness, for a few moments, he said; that house is a mere dungeon: don't you feel it so? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The walls of these dungeons are as thick as some bed-chambers at home are wide--fifteen feet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My friend,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'you don't really mean to say that human beings live down in those wretched dungeons? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She also defied her sire, and he ordered them both to the deepest dungeons of the castle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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