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Dungeon Tower Underground Meaning Prisoners Medieval Dʌndʒən N.地牢

Front dungeon
Pron ['dʌndʒən]
Back 【dungeon】
n.地牢
Some prisoners in the dungeon will be released tomorrow.
一些地牢内的犯人将于明天被释放。
Vocab
dungeonthe main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress

That dank, stone-walled underground prison where wretched prisoners were kept manacled in medieval days? That was a dungeon, otherwise known as the "keep," and most familiar to us today from a million video games and movies.

In fact, the original meaning of dungeon was of something overground rather than underground, coming from the Old French term donjon, meaning the "great tower of a castle," and the underground meaning only came later. Rapunzel in the fairy tale was held captive in a tower rather than an underground cell and if she hadn't been, her long hair wouldn't have been much help in her escape.

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