dungeon
noun (a dungeon, dungeons)
Everyday
- A dark prison room, often underground, in a castle. tree →
- (games) In video and board games, a set of dangerous rooms or tunnels to explore. tree →
In the lessons
In history lessons, castles had dungeons for prisoners. In The Wind in the Willows, Toad is sentenced to twenty years and thrown into «the remotest dungeon of the best-guarded keep of the stoutest castle in all the length and breadth of Merry England». In fairy tales a dungeon tells the reader that someone is trapped and needs rescue. Phrases: «locked in the dungeon», «dungeons and dragons».
Examples
- The king threw the thief into the dungeon. tree →
- Toad lay in the dungeon and wept. tree →
- The dungeon was cold, damp and dark. tree →
- We visited a castle and saw the old dungeon. tree →
- In the game, you have to find the key to escape the dungeon. tree →
- The gaoler's daughter brought food down to the dungeon. tree →
- Many castle dungeons were really used as storerooms. tree →
- So they seized him and put him in a dungeon. tree →
Note
Spelling: d-u-n-g-e-o-n (the e keeps the g soft: «DUN-jun»). Myth: not every castle had a torture dungeon; many cellars were for storing food.
In Jewish tradition
A prison pit or jail where Joseph was kept in Egypt.
Interpretation. The rabbis see Joseph's time in the dungeon as part of God's hidden plan that raised him from prison to rule Egypt.
Examples
- Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. (Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.' (Torah GEN.40.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon. (Writings LAM.3.55, JPS 1917) tree →
- They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me. (Writings LAM.3.53, JPS 1917) tree →
- When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (Prophets JER.37.16, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
Spelling: d-u-n-g-e-o-n (the e keeps the g soft: «DUN-jun»). Myth: not every castle had a torture dungeon; many cellars were for storing food.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «dungeon» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «dungeon» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «dungeon» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «dungeon» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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