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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

The guard buzzed us through a solid steel gate to give us entry to the main hallway, with the dungeon located at the end.

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

“A cowshed. How unimaginative. I really would have expected Capricorn to at least have a proper dungeon for his prisoners.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke