Crossword clues for dungeon
dungeon
- Brown getting no say after uprising in prison
- Dropping a long time in underground cell
- Debt-collector gone mad in underground cell
- Dark underground cell for prisoners
- Underground prison cell
- Underground cell
- Castle's jail cell
- Castle area
- ''Count of Monte Cristo'' setting
- Where Dantes was held, in "The Count of Monte Cristo"
- Underground prison
- Spot for an iron maiden
- Medieval prison
- Dark underground cell
- Dark prison cell
- Castle jail
- Basement of a castle, perhaps
- Role-playing game locale
- Castle section
- "The Count of Monte Cristo" setting
- The main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- A dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
- Oubliette
- Greyish-brown dope circulating Ohio prison
- Mafia boss hiding gun parts and drug in prison
- A long time after dropping cage
- Waste material one’s thrown in underground cell
- Waste a lot of time in prison
- Waste a long time in underground prison
- Keep order to pay £1,000 a long time
- Horse has gone off to get cooler
- Long time sitting on stool in lower chamber
- Animal droppings disturbed one in cell?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dungeon \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.
Down with him even into the deep dungeon. -- Tyndale.
Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. -- Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "great tower of a castle," from Old French donjon "great tower of a castle" (12c.), from Gallo-Roman *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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle. 2 (context obsolete English) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon. 3 (context games English) An area inhabited by enemy, containing story objectives, treasure and boss.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with Issue 150. Starting in 2008, Dungeon and its more widely read sister publication, Dragon, went to an online-only format published by Wizards of the Coast. Both magazines went on hiatus at the end of 2013, with Dungeon Issue 221 being the last released.
Each issue featured a variety of self-contained, pre-scripted, play-tested game scenarios, often called "modules", "adventures" or "scenarios". Dungeon Masters (DMs) could either enact these adventures with their respective player groups as written or adapt them to their own campaign settings. Dungeon aimed to save DMs time and effort in preparing game sessions for their players by providing a full complement of ideas, hooks, plots, adversaries, creatures, illustrations, maps, hand-outs, and character dialogue. It was a resource containing several modules per issue, significantly cheaper than standard-format modules.
A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette or bottle dungeon is a form of dungeon which is accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling.
A dungeon is an underground prison or vault.
Dungeon or donjon may also refer to:
Dungeon was one of the earliest role-playing video games, running on PDP-10 mainframe computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation.
Dungeon was a melodic power metal/ thrash metal band based in Sydney, Australia, considered by some as one of Australia's leading metal bands. The group existed from 1989 to 2005, released six full-length albums, and toured heavily both throughout Australia and internationally.
Dungeon ( French title: Donjon) is a series of comic fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists. It was originally published in France by Delcourt as a series of graphic albums; English translations of the first several stories have been released by NBM Publishing, first in a black-and-white periodical version and now as several color graphic novels.
The series is a parody of sword and sorcery conventions in general, and specifically of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. All of the characters are either anthropomorphic animals or other strange creatures. The "dungeon" of the title is, in the original series, a business establishment run by a mild-mannered chicken, where heroes come in search of adventure and treasure and invariably die. The timeline in the main continuity is described as the stages of day; the series that lead up to the dungeon's creation are described in the Potron-Minet (Dawn) segment, the castle's glory days are described as its Zénith, and its inevitable decay is described in the Crépuscule (Twilight) stories.
Now mostly available in English, the French Donjon is an extremely ambitious work consisting of three sub-series and various side projects.
Usage examples of "dungeon".
The absolute silence of this seldom used dungeon was broken by a creaking sound, exactly the sound, he realised, of the handle to the door below that gave admittance upon the prisoners.
It was no more than ten foot square, low-ceilinged with a solitary window set high in the wall, which gave it the ambience of a dungeon.
Chapter 12 John the Baptist, the mighty prophet of Israel, strained his vision toward the last rays of sunset which leaked through the solitary aperture in his dungeon wall.
For such opposition to the will of the Basha any other person would have been cast into a damp dungeon at night, and chained in the hot sun by day.
They were in a dungeon now, and very far from the Biter, London never mind.
Hector Marot, the highwayman, was shut up in this very Boteler dungeon.
Badminton, and did you not succeed in escaping from the old Boteler dungeon?
If he escaped a lettre de cachet and a dungeon in the Bastille, it can only have been because the King feared the further spread of a scandal injurious to the sacrosanctity of his royal dignity.
In the center of a room only 18 feet by 20, was an open can, the reeking cesspool of this dungeon in which sat a sick Negro convict confined in this dark sweat-box, perishing.
I told her I should be delighted to see him, and then I informed her that the operation by which she was to become a man could not be performed till Querilinto, one of the three chiefs of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, was liberated from the dungeons of the Inquisition, at Lisbon.
He had seen through the maternal precautions the last time he was at home, and talking with Cupples about it, who secretly wished for no better luck than that Alec should fall in love with Annie, had his feelings strengthened as to the unkindness, if not injustice, of throwing her periodically into such a dungeon as the society of the Bruces.
Knowing that she lay confined in this dungeon while, above, the good folk of Darre celebrated the feast day of St.
I suppose your standard Manhattan faggot might look in here for a final white wine en route to a dungeon appointment or death-pact rendezvous at the Water Closet or the Mother Load.
Oh, I wish I could make you see how much my mind is at this moment like a rayless dungeon, with one shrinking fear fettered in its depths -- the fear of being persuaded by you to attempt what I cannot accomplish!
I was at Dungeon Ghyll, a little ravine among the English lakes, down which trickles an exceedingly small stream of water, but which is, nevertheless, very picturesque,--as I followed the old man who shows it for a sixpence, he asked if we had come a long way.