Synonyms for dungeon
ˈdʌn dʒəndun·geon

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. keep, donjon, dungeonnoun

   the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

   Synonyms:
   donjon, sustenance, support, livelihood, keep, living, hold, bread and butter

2. dungeonnoun

   a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined

   Synonyms:
   donjon, keep

Matched Categories

1. • Cell
   • Stronghold

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dungeonnoun

   Synonyms:
   prison (especially one underground and dark)

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "dungeon":

   cachot, tower, stockade

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How to use dungeon in a sentence?

1. Robert Green Ingersoll:

   Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.

2. Julia Fox:

   There's a few in Manhattan and other parts of New York as well and it's legal. You go downstairs, it's a basement, there'd be all these different rooms. There was a medical room for [a] nurse/doctor fantasy, there was a torture room, another type of chamber, a cross-dressing room, a schoolroom, for any type of fantasy. It's really like role playing, it's like acting. When people say how did you get your start in acting it's really like the dungeon because I would have to improv multiple times a day on very short notice.

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

4. Lucretius:

   Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

5. Robert G. Ingersoll:

   What light is to the eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon, where the chained thoughts die with their pinions pressed against the hingeless doors.