English Explanatory Dictionary

terror

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Intense dread, fright, or fear.
  2. The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
  3. Something or someone that causes such fear.
  4. Terrorism.
  5. A night terror.
adj
  1. A strict teacher who fails most of the students.
name
  1. The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
  2. Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/ /tɛɚ/ en-us-terror.ogg /ˈtɛ.ɹə/ /ˈte.ɹə/ /ˈtɛ.ɹəɹ/ /ˈtʌ.ɹɚ/

Word forms

terror terrors terrour more terror most terror

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

Synonyms

horror terror fear afraidness

Related words

in terrorem terrible terrific terrify alarm dismay panic frighten Don't Panic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia consternation dread fright

Derived words

agroterror antiterror balance of terror bioterror counterterror cyberterror ecoterror holy terror megaterror narcoterror night terror nonterror pterror red terror Reign of Terror saffron terror sleep terror stochastic terror terrification terror bird terrorbomb terror bomb terror-bomb terror-bombing terror bombing terror cell terrorcore terrorful terrorise terrorism terrorist terroristic terrorize terrorized terrorless terrorsome terrorsploitation terrorstricken terror-stricken terrorstruck white terror yellow terror

Translations

Armenian: սարսափ Catalan: terror Chinese Mandarin: 詭異的事物 /诡异的事物 Chinese Mandarin: 恐怖 Dutch: verschrikking Esperanto: teruraĵo Finnish: kauhu French: terreur Galician: terror German: Terror Greek: τρόμος Greek: φόβητρο Ancient Greek: δεινόν Hungarian: rém Japanese: 恐怖 Korean: 공포 Malayalam: ഭീകരം Middle English: ferdnesse Portuguese: terror Russian: у́жас Spanish: terror
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