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dungeon 音标拼音: [d'ʌndʒən] n. 土牢,地牢;城堡主楼 土牢,地牢;城堡主楼 dungeon n 1: the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress [ synonym: { keep}, { donjon}, { dungeon}] 2: a dark cell ( usually underground) where prisoners can be confineddungeon \ dun" geon\ ( d[ u^] n" j[ u^] n), n. [ OE. donjoun highest tower of a castle, tower, prison, F. donjon tower or platform in the midst of a castle, turret, or closet on the top of a house, a keep of a castle, LL. domnio, the same word as LL. dominus lord. See { Dame}, { Don}, and cf. { Dominion}, { Domain}, { Demesne}, { Danger}, { Donjon}.] A close, dark prison, commonly, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. [ 1913 Webster] Down with him even into the deep dungeon. -- Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster] Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster]
Dungeon \ Dun" geon\, v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. -- Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] 49 Moby Thesaurus words for " dungeon": POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, cell, concentration camp, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, donjon, federal prison, forced- labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum- security prison, minimum- security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, stronghold, the hole, tollbooth, training school, vault |
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