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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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"The remake really leans into the surreal, uncanny nature of the original dungeon."

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Nintendo has made some big changes, not least to the Water Temple - a dungeon about two thirds into the game.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

He scrambled together a videotape, renting out a dungeon batting cage in Manhattan for a throwing session.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

At that point, it felt like a dungeon, the inner rooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

It was like coming up out of a dungeon, Sandi decided.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

If Link is puzzle-solving muscle, Zelda is conjurer, a solution-based thinker whose approach to monsters, dungeons and rifts that turn the world into fragments is equal parts patience, humor and, yes, action.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024

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

So at seven o’clock, Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked straight past the doorway to the packed Great Hall, which was glittering invitingly with gold plates and candles, and directed their steps instead toward the dungeons.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling


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