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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