Definitions for terror
ˈtɛr ərter·ror

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

1. panic, terror, affright(noun)

   an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

2. terror, scourge, threat(noun)

   a person who inspires fear or dread

   "he was the terror of the neighborhood"

3. terror, brat, little terror, holy terror(noun)

   a very troublesome child

4. terror(noun)

   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. terror(Noun)

   intense dread, fright, or fear.

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

2. terror(Noun)

   specific instances of being intensely terrified

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

3. terror(Noun)

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

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

4. terror(Noun)

   something or someone that causes such fear.

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

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

1. Terror(noun)

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

2. Terror(noun)

   that which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear

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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

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

How to pronounce terror?

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   Alex

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   Karen

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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. Matt Damon:

   People get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter.

2. Milan Bandic:

   There is no sign of any organized unrest or terror threat, security is written in Zagreb with capital letters.

3. 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.

4. John Kerry:

   Terror groups like the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e Taiba, and other groups, continue to pose a threat to Pakistan, to its neighbors, and to the United States, and we all of us have a responsibility to ensure that these groups do not gain a foothold but rather are pushed back into the recesses of (Pakistan’s) memory, this task is obviously far from finished.

5. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933:

   The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

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