exposure to the possibility of injury, pain, or loss
Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not danger — Bacon
a case or cause of danger
I was well aware of the dangers of mining
the possibility of something unwelcome
Is there any danger of her dying?
Middle English daunger from Old French dangier, ultimatelyfrom Latin dominium ownership, power, from dominus lord. The original sense was ‘power’, esp the power to harm or injure, later ‘injury, damage’, hence the risk of these