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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 ?ga.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?h???/
• (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /?h???/
• (Received Pronunciation, New England) IPA^(key): /?h???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

1. (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
2. (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.

   I saw many horrors during the war.
3. (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
4. (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
5. (countable) An individual work in this genre.
   • 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema

     […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.

6. (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

   The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!

7. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
8. (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.

Synonyms

• nightmare

Hypernyms

• speculative fiction

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• horror in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• horror in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• horror at OneLook Dictionary Search

Galician

Etymology

From Latin horror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ro?]

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

1. horror

   Synonyms: espanto, pavor, terror

Related terms

References

• “horror” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “horror” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hor?or]
• Hyphenation: hor?ror
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

horror (plural horrorok)

1. horror

Declension

References

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *horz?s. Equivalent to horreo +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?hor.ror/, [?h?r??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?or.ror/, [??r??r]

Noun

horror m (genitive horr?ris); third declension

1. bristling (standing on end)
2. shaking, shivering, chill
3. dread, terror, horror

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• horrendus
• horridus
• horribilis

Descendants

References

• horror in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• horror in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• horror in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Old French

Alternative forms

• horrour
• horrur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Noun

horror f (oblique plural horrors, nominative singular horror, nominative plural horrors)

1. horror or terror

Descendants

• English: horror
• Middle French: horreur
  • French: horreur

Polish

Etymology

From English horror, from Latin horror.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.rr?r/

Noun

horror m inan

1. (colloquial) horror (something horrible; that which excites horror)
2. (film) horror movie

   Synonym: film grozy

3. (literature) horror

Declension

Further reading

• horror in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• horror in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???o?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o??o?/
• (Paulistano) IPA^(key): /o??o?/
• Hyphenation: hor?ror

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

1. horror

   Synonyms: temor, terror

Related terms

• horrendo
• hórrido
• horrífero
• horrífico
• horripilar
• horrível
• horrorizar
• horroroso

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin horror, horrorem.

Cf. also the popular Old Spanish horrura, inherited from a derivative of the Latin or with a change of suffix, and taking on the meaning of "dirtiness, filth, impurity, scum"; comparable to derivatives of horridus in other Romance languages, like Italian ordo, Old French ord, French ordure, Old Catalan hòrreu, horresa, Old Occitan orre, orrezeza, Romanian urdoare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?ro?/, [o?ro?]

Noun

horror m (plural horrores)

1. horror

   Synonyms: miedo, temor, terror

Related terms

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klingan? (“to sound”). Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Doublet of call.

Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.

Noun

clink (plural clinks)

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.

   You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.

   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

Translations

Verb

clink (third-person singular simple present clinks, present participle clinking, simple past and past participle clinked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

   The hammers clinked on the stone all night.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

     The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:
     Unlifted was the clinking latch

2. (humorous, dated) To rhyme.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

Noun

clink (plural clinks)

1. (slang) A prison.

   If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.

2. Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:jail

Etymology 3

Verb

clink (third-person singular simple present clinks, present participle clinking, simple past and past participle clinked)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To clinch; to rivet.

Anagrams

• Linck