Donjon

Definition: Donjon

Donjon

Noun

1. The main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress.

Date "donjon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Donjon \Don"jon\, noun. [See Dungeon.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Donjon

Synonyms: dungeon (n), keep (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Donjon

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Defense	Hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum; (refuge); keep, donjon, dungeon, fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength; fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath; wooden walls.
Prison	Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Donjon

Non-English Usage: "Donjon" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (donjon), Romanian (donjon, dungeon).

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Commercial Usage: Donjon

Domain	Title
Books	Au donjon des aigles : où Jean-Claude Alberny et Henri Venant nous parlent de leurs oiseaux (reference) Bernard Palissy, mythe et réalité : Saintes, Musée de l'Echevinage et Salle des Jacobins, mai-septembre 1990 [et] Niort, Musée du Donjon, octobre-novembre 1990 [et] Agen, Musée des beaux-arts, décembre 1990-janvier 1991 (reference) LA Cite Perdue: Module De Donjon B4, French Translation of the Lost City (reference) Le donjon de Lonveigh : roman (reference) Le grand Louvre : du donjon à la pyramide (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Donjon

"Donjon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Donjon" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Donjon

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
donjon	49
donjon dragon	19
donjon dragon et	18
de donjon naheulbeuk	15
de donjon le naheulbeuk	5
donjon marine	4
donjon du minou	3
donjon le	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Donjon

Language		Translations for "donjon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kullë kështjelle (dungeon). (various references)

Arabic		‏برج محصن (dungeon). (various references)

French		donjon. (various references)

Greek		οχυρά κρύπτη πύργου. (various references)

Hungarian		donzsón (dungeon). (various references)

Pig Latin		onjonday

Portuguese		masmorra (dungeon). (various references)

Romanian		donjon (dungeon). (various references)

Russian		главная башня (dungeon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		toranj zamka. (various references)

Spanish		torre principal. (various references)

Swedish		slottskärna, huvudtorn (keep). (various references)

Turkish		kale burcu, şato baş kulesi. (various references)

Ukrainian		головна вежа замку. (various references)

Vietnamese		tháp canh (observatory). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Donjon

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arx, arx, arcis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Donjon

Derivations
	Words beginning with "donjon": donjons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Donjon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dojang, Domjan, Donja, donyo, Dundon, ognjen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Donjon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-j-n-n-o-o"
	-2 letters: dojo, noon.
	-3 letters: don, nod, noo.
	-4 letters: do, jo, no, od, on.
	Words containing the letters "d-j-n-n-o-o"
	+1 letter: donjons.
	+3 letters: conjoined.
	+4 letters: nonjoinder.
	+5 letters: nonjoinders.
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