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English

Alternative forms

• 
  terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French terreur (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

Pronunciation

• 
  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹɚ/, in some accents IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɚ/
  


• 
  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹə/
  


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• Rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ), -ɛə(ɹ)
  


• Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  


• Homophones: tare, tear (some American accents)
  


• Homophones: terra, Terra (non-rhotic accents)
  

Noun

terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

1. 
   (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
   
   • 
     1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb
     

     The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.



2. 
   (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
   
   • 
     1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance
     


3. 
   (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
   
   • 
     1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, OCLC 230944105, page 474:

     The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

   
   
   • 
     1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
     

     The terrors of the storm

   
   
   • 
     1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.

   
   


4. 
   (uncountable) terrorism
   

   
   a terror attack; the War on Terror

Derived terms

Related terms

• terrible


• terrific


• terrify


• terrorism


• terrorist

Translations

See also

• alarm


• fright


• consternation


• dread


• dismay

Further reading

• 
  terror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913


• 
  terror in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• rorter

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.

Noun

terror m, f (plural terrors)

1. 
   terror, horror
   

Danish

Noun

terror c (singular definite terroren, not used in plural form)

1. terror

References

• “terror” in Den Danske Ordbog
  

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.^[1]

Pronunciation

• 
  IPA^(key): [ˈtɛrːor]
  


• Hyphenation: ter‧ror
  

Noun

terror (plural terrorok)

1. terror

Declension

Derived terms

• terrortámadás

References

Latin

Etymology

From terreō (“frighten, terrify”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• 
  (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈter.ror/, [ˈtɛr.rɔr]
  

Noun

terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

1. a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
   


2. an object of fear or dread

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• 
  terror in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press


• 
  terror in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers


• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    
  
  
  • terror, panic seizes some one: terror incidit alicui
    
  
  
  • terror, panic seizes some one: terror invadit in aliquem (rarely alicui, after Livy aliquem)
    
  
  
  • to overwhelm some one with terror: in terrorem conicere aliquem
    
  
  
  
  

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

1. terror

Derived terms

• terrorangrep


• terrorhandling

References

• 
  “terror” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

Noun

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

1. terror

Derived terms

• terrorhandling

References

• 
  “terror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.

Pronunciation

• 
  (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨ.ˈʁoɾ/
  


• 
  (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.ˈʁoʁ/
  

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

1. 
   terror (intense fear)
   
   • 
     2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 493:
     

     Os olhos do elfo se arregalavam de terror e ele tremia.



2. 
   (Brazil, slang) a very troublesome person or thing
   

   
   Você é um terror, garoto! - You're naughty, boy!
   

   
   

   
   Esses bandidos são um terror - Those criminals are terrible!
   

   
   

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:terror.

Derived terms

• aterrorizar


• terrorismo


• terrorista

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem^[1].

Noun

terror m (plural terrores)

1. horror


2. terror

Related terms

Swedish

Noun

terror c

1. terror

Declension

Related terms

• terrordåd


• terrorhandling


• terrorism


• 
  terrorist