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Synonyms for dungeons

Grammar : Noun
Spell : duhn-juh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʌn dʒən

Définition of dungeons

Origin :
  • c.1300, "great tower of a castle," from Old French donjon "great tower of a castle" (12c.), from Gallo-Romance *dominionem, from Late Latin dominium, from Latin dominus "master" (of the castle; see domain). Sense of "castle keep" led to "strong (underground) cell" in English early 14c. The original sense went with the variant donjon.
  • noun prison
Example sentences :
  • Here in these dungeons children were born, only for the most part to die.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • The army lived in huts, which, as Lafayette exclaimed, "were no gayer than dungeons."
  • Extract from : « The Nation in a Nutshell » by George Makepeace Towle
  • But there were no loopholes for musketry, nor vaults and dungeons.
  • Extract from : « Captain Brand of the "Centipede" » by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
  • It's like feeding a mouse when you're a prisoner in dungeons.
  • Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
  • He ought, strictly, to have been placed in the dungeons of the Inquisition.
  • Extract from : « Great Astronomers » by R. S. Ball
  • I will not describe our walk among the dungeons, the cloisters, the halls and the chapel.
  • Extract from : « Balthasar » by Anatole France
  • And now, will you shut me up in your dungeons to pay me for my kindness?
  • Extract from : « The Pioneers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Did he not rescue twenty of us from the dungeons of Sir Turquine?
  • Extract from : « King Arthur's Knights » by Henry Gilbert
  • And in his dungeons are many poor knights, and my dear father, Sir Darrel.
  • Extract from : « King Arthur's Knights » by Henry Gilbert
  • He was brought past a row of dungeons under the Arena, and locked into a cell.
  • Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley

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