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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 confined 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. [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 {Zork} 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). DUNGEON. A cell under ground; a place in a prison built under ground, dark,
or but indifferently lighted. In the prisons of the United States, there are few or no dungeons.
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