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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2026

Through luck, Sam and Mike narrowly avoided placement in the dungeon as the unit had no capacity.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2024

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2024

Laios’ approach to life in the dungeon is to eat everything he comes across.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2024

Or whatever other magical creatures the tsar had stashed in his secret dungeon.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

It’s weird to be alive at a time when much of contemporary warfare comprises literal laser beams, flying robots and dungeons full of nerds at computer terminals, but that’s really what’s happening.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2026

Mr Hamaguchi says the developers want the open world to work as "one single space" with "all of the towns, all of the dungeons and everything linked together seamlessly in one space".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2023

When Breath of the Wild was released in 2017, it rescued The Legend of Zelda, a video game franchise growing stale because of a predictable gameplay loop of dungeons and fetch quests.

From New York Times May 12, 2023

Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.

From Washington Post Mar. 28, 2023

Worst of all were Professor Snape’s classes down in the dungeons, where their breath rose in a mist before them and they kept as close as possible to their hot cauldrons.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling




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