terror

• terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)

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”).

• (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)

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

• terrible
• terrific
• terrify
• terrorism
• terrorist

• alarm
• fright
• consternation
• dread
• dismay

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

• rorter

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /təˈro/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /teˈroɾ/

terror m or f (plural terrors)

1. terror, horror

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

1. terror

• “terror” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

terror (plural terrorok)

1. terror

• terrortámadás

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

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

terror m (genitive terrōris); third declension

1. a dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic
2. an object of fear or dread

Third declension.

• 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, 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
    

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

1. terror

• terrorangrep
• terrorhandling
• terrorregime

• “terror” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

terror m (definite singular terroren, uncountable)

1. terror

• terrorhandling
• terrorregime

• “terror” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English terror, from Latin terror.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.rrɔr/

terror m inan

1. terror

• (verbs) terroryzować impf, strerroryzować pf
• (nouns) terrorysta m, terrortystka f, terroryzm m
• (adjectives) terrorystyczny
• (adverbs) terrorystycznie

• terror in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem.

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

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!

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

• aterrorizar
• terrorismo
• terrorista

Borrowed from Latin terror, terrorem[1].

terror m (plural terrores)

1. horror
2. terror

terror c

1. terror

• terrordåd
• terrorhandling
• terrorism
• terrorist