hazard

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
2. (countable, uncountable) An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
3. (countable, uncountable) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
4. (countable, uncountable) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
5. (countable, uncountable) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
6. (countable, historical, uncountable) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
7. (countable, uncountable) Chance.
8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
9. (countable, uncountable) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
10. (countable, uncountable) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.

Verb

1. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
2. To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on.

Synonyms

risk

danger

❗

peril

venture

jeopardy

chance

🎲

jeopardize

endanger

adventure

dare

stake

accidence

endangerment

luck

🍀

take a chance

threat

imperil

guess

run a risk

take chances

compromise

be audacious

accident

harm

fortune

gamble

pretend

obstruction

occasion

peradventure

play

plight

presume

roadblock

scupper

stakes

stymie

stymy

sweepstake

treachery

uncertainty

hinderance

fear

😨

diriment impediment

harm and danger

risk safety

alarm

bar

barrier

block

Translations

danger

❗

rischio

riesgo

🎲

Gefahr

❗

peligro

risco

κίνδυνος

risque

arriesgar

hasard

risquer

risico

Risiko

pericolo

arrischiare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhæ.zɚd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hasard

Cognate with Spanish: azar

Cognate with Portuguese: azar

In summary

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.