dungeons
Meaning of dungeons
- a strong underground prison cell, especially in a castle.
- archaic term for donjon.
verb, 3rd person present
imprison (someone) in a dungeon.
Middle English (also with the sense ‘castle keep’): from Old French (perhaps originally with the sense ‘lord's tower’ or ‘mistress tower’), based on Latin dominus ‘lord, master’. Compare with donjon.
Information about dungeons
- The singular form of dungeons is: dungeon.
- Languages in which dungeons is used:
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Hyphenation of dungeons
dun-geons
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- dungeons is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
dungeons synonyms
Meaning a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling:
Meaning a small room in which a prisoner is locked up or in which a monk or nun sleeps:
Meaning a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial:
Meaning a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime:
Meaning a hollow place in a solid body or surface:
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