horror
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See also: Horror
English
Alternative forms
- horrour (UK, hypercorrect spelling or archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA(key): /ˈhɒɹ.ə/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɹ.ɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹ.ɚ/
- (some accents) IPA(key): /ˈhɔɚ/
- Homophones: whore, hoar (some rhotic American accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
- Rhymes: -ɒɹə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Noun
horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:
- Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- I saw many horrors during the war.
- 1898 July 3, Philadelphia Inquirer, page 22:
- The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- 1917 February 11, New York Times, Book reviews, page 52:
- Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
- (countable) An individual work in this genre.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 156:
- A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."
- 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema:
- […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
- (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- analog horror
- analogue horror
- Belsen horror
- body horror
- chamber of horrors
- dry horrors
- ecohorror
- Eurohorror
- folk horror
- fridge horror
- horror autotoxicus
- horrorcore
- horrorfest
- horror film
- horror flick
- horrorful
- horrorist
- horrorize
- horrormeister
- horrormonger
- horror movie
- horror of horrors
- horrorous
- horror punk
- horrorscope
- horror show
- horror-show
- horrorsome
- horror story
- horror-stricken
- horror-struck
- horrorthon
- horror-thriller
- horror vacui
- horrorzine
- house of horrors
- J-horror
- midnight horror
- nonhorror
- outhorror
- psychological horror
- shock horror
- survival horror
- technohorror
Related terms
Translations
intense distressing fear or repugnance
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thing that which excites horror
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intense dislike or aversion
literary genre
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informal: intense anxiety
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Further reading
- “horror”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “horror”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “horror”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
horror m (uncountable)
- horror (genre of fiction)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “horror”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin horror.
Pronunciation
Noun
horror m (plural horrores)
Related terms
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “horror”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “horror”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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