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Webster 1913 Edition

Terror

Ter′ror

,
Noun.
[L.
terror
, akin to
terrere
to frighten, for
tersere
; akin to Gr. [GREEK] to flee away, dread, Skr.
tras
to tremble, to be afraid, Russ.
triasti
to shake: cf. F.
terreur
. Cf.
Deter
.]
1.
Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.
Terror
seized the rebel host.
Milton.
2.
That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
Those enormous
terrors
of the Nile.
Prior.
Rulers are not a
terror
to good works.
Rom. xiii. 3.
There is no
terror
, Cassius, in your threats.
Shakespeare
☞ Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving, terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like.
King of terrors
,
death.
Job xviii. 14.
–
Reign of Terror
.
(French Hist.)
See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Syn. – Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See
Alarm
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Terror

TER'ROR

,
Noun.
[L. terror, from terreo, to frighten.]
1.
Extreme fear; violent dread; fright; fear that agitates the body and mind.
The sword without, and terror within. Deut.32.
The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Job.6.
2.
That which may excite dread; the cause of extreme fear.
Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Rom.13.
Those enormous terrors of the Nile.
3.
In Scripture, the sudden judgments of God are called terrors.Ps.73.
4.
The threatenings of wicked men, or evil apprehended from them. 1 Pet.3.
5.
Awful majesty, calculated to impress fear. 2 Cor.5.
6.
Death is emphatically styled the king of terrors.

Definition 2024

Terror

Terror

See also: terror

German

Noun

Terror m ‎(genitive Terrors, no plural)

  1. terror

Synonyms

Derived terms

terror

terror

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English

Alternative forms

  • terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)

Noun

terror ‎(countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

  1. (uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
  2. (countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.
  3. (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
  4. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
    • 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.
  5. (uncountable) terrorism
    a terror attack; the War on Terror

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

External links

  • terror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • terror in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin terror.

Noun

terror m, f ‎(plural terrors)

  1. terror, horror

Danish

Noun

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

  1. terror

References

Hungarian

Etymology

From English terror, from Latin terror. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛrːor]
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ror

Noun

terror ‎(plural terrorok)

  1. terror

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative terror terrorok
accusative terrort terrorokat
dative terrornak terroroknak
instrumental terrorral terrorokkal
causal-final terrorért terrorokért
translative terrorrá terrorokká
terminative terrorig terrorokig
essive-formal terrorként terrorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive terrorban terrorokban
superessive terroron terrorokon
adessive terrornál terroroknál
illative terrorba terrorokba
sublative terrorra terrorokra
allative terrorhoz terrorokhoz
elative terrorból terrorokból
delative terrorról terrorokról
ablative terrortól terroroktól
Possessive forms of terror
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. terrorom terroraim
2nd person sing. terrorod terroraid
3rd person sing. terrora terrorai
1st person plural terrorunk terroraink
2nd person plural terrorotok terroraitok
3rd person plural terroruk terroraik

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Latin

Etymology

From terreō ‎(“frighten, terrify”).

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.

Case Singular Plural
nominative terror terrōrēs
genitive terrōris terrōrum
dative terrōrī terrōribus
accusative terrōrem terrōrēs
ablative terrōre terrōribus
vocative terror terrōrēs

Related terms

  • terribilitās
  • terricula

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
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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

From Latin terror, via English terror

Noun

terror m ‎(definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin terror, via English terror

Noun

terror m ‎(definite singular terroren, uncountable)

  1. terror

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin terror.

Pronunciation

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 usage examples of this term, see Citations:terror.

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin terror.

Noun

terror m ‎(plural terrores)

  1. horror
  2. terror

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Swedish

Noun

terror c

  1. terror

Declension

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛʀoːɐ̯/

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