English Dictionary

terror

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

noun

(countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear. / (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

The terror in the city was palpable.

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance

意味（3）

(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

意味（4）

(uncountable) Terrorism.

a terror attack

意味（5）

(pathology, countable) A night terror.