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dungeon

[duhn-juhn]

noun

  1. a strong, dark prison or cell, usually underground, as in a medieval castle.

  2. the keep or stronghold of a castle; donjon.



dungeon

/ ˈʌԻə /

noun

  1. a close prison cell, often underground

  2. a variant of donjon

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dungeon1

1250–1300; Middle English dungeo ( u ) n, dongeoun, dungun < Middle French donjon < Vulgar Latin *dzԾō- (stem of *dzԾō ) keep, mastery, syncopated variant of *dzԾō- dominion
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dungeon1

C14: from Old French donjon; related to Latin dominus master
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“It wasn’t until Season 2 that we discovered it had this space that felt like a dungeon,” Cotton recalls.

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The dungeon is full of weird, pulsing, half-sentient creatures — more slime than steak.

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California is down in the dungeon, at No. 47, besting only New Jersey, Vermont and New York.

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An album recorded over the phone in a place that the American Civil Liberties Union once called a “modern-day Medieval dungeon” was widely hailed as the best ever made from jail.

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It first gained international infamy after a regime defector under the pseudonym of Caesar released tens of thousands of photos in 2014 of deceased prisoners tortured in its dungeons.

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