Definition of "detriment" in Englisch

noun

1. Harm, hurt, damage.

2. (UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.

3. (astrology) The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.

4. (heraldry, of the moon) The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).

verb

1. (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.