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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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He said there was now "a greater facility in tackling" the dungeon, as players can now easily change a critical in-game item known as heavy boots and have "the ability to leverage the camera orientation".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

"The Forest Temple has always been my favourite Zelda dungeon: a mysterious, haunted mansion in the deep woods, a lost work of man slowly being reclaimed by nature," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Disappointed, Harry emptied the cauldron, packed up his things, left the dungeon, and walked slowly back upstairs to the common room.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

Harris descended into the dungeons of the facility, toured the cells where enslaved people were kept and walked through the so-called door of no return, choking back tears, her hand over her mouth.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023

“Why isn’t he down in the dungeons with the rest of the teachers?”

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling


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