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dungeon

[duhn-juhn] / ˈdʌn dʒən /
NOUN
prison
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The show is part travelogue, part adventure quest with monsters, magic battles and dungeon exploration.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

The catacombs beneath a crumbling city have cracked wide open, revealing a vast, spiraling dungeon teeming with strange beasts and stranger plants.

From Salon • May 12, 2025

But for prisoners like Sam and Mike, and for the haunted souls I encountered in the dungeon, official policies hardly matter.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2024

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

Jessie, wearing jeans and a baggy navy hoodie, was perched on the steps leading to the dungeon with a pile of colored gumdrops and wooden toothpicks in neat piles around her.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser