Dungeon

Noun

 * 1) An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
 * 2)  The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.
 * 3)  An area linked to the overworld that is inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure and bosses.

Hyponyms

 * oubliette

Derived terms

 * instance dungeon
 * dungeon crawler

Adjectives for Dungeon
airless; subterranean; underground; miserable; bleak; awful; villainous; pagan; priestly; gloomy.

Verbs for Dungeon
air—; bind in—; burst—; cast into—; clap into—; commit to—; conceal in—; confine to—; doom to—; dwell in—; escape from—; fling to—; gather in—; guard—; hide in—; imprison in—; incarcerate in—; lock in—; mold in—; rescue from—; rot in—; solace in—; storm—; —harbors; —incarcerates ; —reeks.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From dungeon:, dungun:, from  donjon:, of  origin, from  *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with dung:,  dung:,  tung:,  dyngja:. More at dung.

Translations

 * French: donjon, cachot
 * German: Verlies
 * Hungarian: vártorony
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: mazmorra


 * Arabic: (zinzāna)
 * Bulgarian: донжон
 * Catalan: calabós
 * Chinese: 地牢 (dìláo)
 * Danish: fangekælder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: karcero
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צינוק (tzinok)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: prigione sotterranea ,
 * Japanese: ダンジョン (danjon)
 * Korean: 던전 (deonjeon)
 * Latin: ,
 * Norwegian: fangekjeller, fangehull
 * Old English: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: донжон кула
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * : अंधकूपकारागार (a.ndhupakārāgār)
 * : अंधारकोठी (a.ndhārakothī)


 * : చీకటి గది (cIkaTi gadi), భూగృహము (bhUgRhamu)