dungeon

«dungeon» in Mova's school dictionary: A dark prison room, often underground, in a castle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a dungeon, dungeons)

meaning for a pupil

1) A dark prison room, often underground, in a castle. tree →

2) (games) In video and board games, a set of dangerous rooms or tunnels to explore. tree →

sense 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 the corpora

• Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon.
• When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
• They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.
• I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dungeon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.