dungeon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dungeon	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for dungeon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dungeon n the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress Synonym(s): keep, donjon, dungeon a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dungeon \Dun"geon\, v. t. To shut up in a dungeon. --Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dungeon \Dun"geon\, 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, common[?], under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons. Down with him even into the deep dungeon. -- Tyndale. Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. -- Macaulay.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Dungeon {Zork}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Dungeon different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Gen. 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2 Chron. 16:10; Jer. 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Matt. 11:2; Luke 3:20; Acts 5:18, 21; Matt. 18:30).