Definitions for dread
drɛddread

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread(adj)

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

2. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible(verb)

   causing fear or dread or terror

   "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

3. fear, dread(verb)

   be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

   "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dread(Noun)

   A great fear.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

2. dread(Noun)

   Somebody or something dreaded.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

3. dread(Noun)

   A Rastafarian.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

4. dread(Noun)

   dreadlock

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

5. dread(Verb)

   To fear greatly.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

6. dread(Verb)

   To anticipate with fear.

   I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

7. dread(Adjective)

   Terrible; greatly feared.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

8. dread(Adjective)

   Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

   Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dread(verb)

   to fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

2. Dread(verb)

   to be in dread, or great fear

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

3. Dread(noun)

   great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

4. Dread(noun)

   reverential or respectful fear; awe

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

5. Dread(noun)

   an object of terrified apprehension

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

6. Dread(noun)

   a person highly revered

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

7. Dread(noun)

   fury; dreadfulness

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

8. Dread(noun)

   doubt; as, out of dread

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

9. Dread(adj)

   exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful

   Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

10. Dread(adj)

    inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal

    Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]

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1. Dread

   Dread is a live album by Living Colour released only in Japan in 1994. It contains live recordings from the Stain tour, an acoustic radio session and two B-sides. The live recordings were recorded on 7 June 1993 at Le Zenith in Paris, France and at a concert on 24 April 1993 at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. The radio session was recorded for a Dutch radio show called Countdown Café in February 1993. Both of the B-sides were recorded during the Stain sessions.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dread

   dred, n. fear: awe: the objects that excite fear.—adj. dreaded: inspiring great fear or awe.—v.t. to regard with terror: to regard with reverence.—adjs. Dread′able; Dread′ful, (orig.) full of dread: producing great fear or awe: terrible.—adv. Dread′fully.—n. Dread′fulness.—adj. Dread′less, free from dread: intrepid.—adv. Dread′lessly.—n. Dread′lessness.—adj. Dread′ly (Spens.) dreadful.—ns. Dread′naught, Dread′nought, one who dreads nothing—hence, a garment of thick cloth defending against the weather: the cloth of which it is made.—Penny dreadful, a cheap sensational serial or tale, usually bloody in subject and vulgar in tone. [M. E. dreden—A.S. on-drǽdan, to fear; Ice. ondréda, Old High Ger. in-tratan, to be afraid.]

Anagrams for dread »

1. dared

2. adder

3. readd

How to pronounce dread?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dread in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dread in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of dread in a Sentence

1. Dame Rebecca West:

   Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

2. Mark Barden:

   I still dread that every day I live, I'm one day farther away from my life with Daniel.

3. Nancy Astor:

   I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

4. Mark Karpeles:

   This is probably going to be disappointing for you, but I am not and have never been Dread Pirate Roberts, the investigation reached that conclusion already - this is why I am not the one sitting during the Silk Road trial, and I can only feel defense attorney Joshua Dratel trying everything he can to point the attention away from his client.

5. William Shakespeare:

   To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

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