Definitions for terror
ˈtɛr ərter·ror

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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-.

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

1. Terrornoun

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

2. Terrornoun

   that which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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. terror—terrēre, to frighten.]

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1. terror

   Song lyrics by terror -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by terror on the Lyrics.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Coercion
   • Fear
   • Imp

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce terror?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Oscar Wilde:

   Biography lends to death a new terror.

2. Nir Barkat:

   My bodyguard took out his weapon and when he aimed at the terrorist, the terrorist dropped his knife and we immediately tackled him on the ground to make sure that he cannot continue with the terror attack.

3. President Barack Obama:

   What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terror suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon?

4. Dean Parker:

   I saw the fear and terror on this child eyes who was looking directly at me through the camera ... I never been moved by anything like that in my life.

5. Jed Mercurio:

   The other thing is, unfortunately, the reality of our situation is that the principal terror threats in the UK do originate from Islamist sympathizers, i do understand that's different from the religion of Islam, but it's the reality of who the perpetrators are of the majority of the offenses. If the show were set in the recent British past, the attackers might be Irish republicans.

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