What does Terror mean?

Definitions for Terror
ˈtɛr ərter·ror

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. panic, terror, affrightnoun

    an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

  2. terror, scourge, threatnoun

    a person who inspires fear or dread

    "he was the terror of the neighborhood"

  3. terror, brat, little terror, holy terrornoun

    a very troublesome child

  4. terrornoun

    the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)

    "he used terror to make them confess"

Wiktionary

  1. terrornoun

    intense dread, fright, or fear.

  2. terrornoun

    specific instances of being intensely terrified

  3. terrornoun

    the action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction

  4. terrornoun

    something or someone that causes such fear.

  5. Etymology: From terreur, from accusative terrorem, from terreo, from tre-, tres-.

ChatGPT

  1. terror

    Terror refers to extreme fear or dread that is often intense, overwhelming, and typically induced by a perceived threat or danger. It can also refer to the use of violence or threats, particularly for political purposes, with the intention of creating intense fear among the populace.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Terrornoun

    extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright

  2. Terrornoun

    that which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear

Wikidata

  1. Terror

    Terror is a hardcore punk band with members from Los Angeles, California and Richmond, Virginia. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copies. They have toured throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Mexico and South America. Their third album, Always the Hard Way reached No. 10 on Billboard Heatseekers and No. 19 on the Top Independent Records chart. Before Terror, vocalist Scott Vogel sang for Slugfest, Despair, and for Buffalo based hardcore metal act Buried Alive in the mid-90's. Drummer Nick Jett and ex-guitarist Todd Jones were members of the well-known hardcore band Carry On. Carl Schwartz, formerly of Sworn Vengeance, recorded much of Always the Hard Way after quitting the band to front First Blood full time. Vogel is widely known in the scene not just for his efforts to keep hardcore "pure" and "fun," but for his love of stagedives, and for his tendency for bizarre and often hilarious on-stage banter, known colloquially as "Vogelisms". Examples include: "We need to elevate the maximum stagedive potential", "Take this shit to the next level", "Who cares if you're Christian?", and "Maximum output! Activate the pit!" Terror also participated in the first two years of the Sounds of the Underground tour. Their new album due out in 2012 is to be titled "Live By The Code." "Live By The Code" was pushed back to April 2013 and will be released by Victory Records on CD and by Reaper Records for the vinyl. The band explained the decision to go with Victory on their Twitter account, Facebook account and via their official website. Terror's 2013 album "Live By The Code" was the band's first time charting on the The Billboard 200 at #121. It was also number one on the Heatseekers chart and #28 on Independent chart. LBTC sold 3,177 copies in its first week

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Terror

    ter′or, n. extreme fear: an object of fear or dread—(Milt.) Terr′our.—adj. Terr′or-haunt′ed, haunted with terror.—n. Terrorisā′tion.—v.t. Terr′orise, to terrify: to govern by terror.—ns. Terr′oriser, one who terrorises; Terr′orism, a state of terror: a state which impresses terror: an organised system of intimidation; Terr′orist, one who rules by terror.—adjs. Terr′orless, free from terror: harmless; Terr′or-smit′ten, -strick′en, -struck, seized with terror, terrified.—v.t. Terr′or-strike, to smite with terror.—King of Terrors, death; Reign of Terror, or The Terror, the period of fever in the first French Revolution, during which the king, the queen, thousands of victims—the innocent and the guilty—the Girondists, Danton, Madame Roland, and at last Robespierre, were hurried to the guillotine. [L. terrorterrēre, to frighten.]

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Terror' in Nouns Frequency: #2138

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Terror in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Terror in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Terror in a Sentence

  1. Michael McCaul:

    I think that we need to step up this war on terror against ISIS because if it's a Russian airline today it could be an American airline tomorrow.

  2. Giuseppe Antoci:

    One of the mob’s arson techniques is to tie a petrol-soaked rag to the tail of a cat and set fire to it, as its tail burns, the cat flees in terror into the undergrowth in the woods, setting fire to everything in touches.

  3. John Kerry:

    That's why we left in place the sanctions on human rights, the sanctions on arms, the sanctions on missiles, the sanctions on a state sponsor of terror, we are being more than vigilant, actually.

  4. Michael Weiss:

    ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.

  5. Wesley Hunt:

    Al Qaeda or an organization like al Qaeda will certainly be back, they don’t have to get on planes and fly into buildings this time. They will just walk across our southern border. You can’t have an unsecure southern border and an unsecure haven for terror.

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