horror

Frasi
Senso (Inglese)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
  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) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  6. (colloquial, countable) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
  7. (countable, informal, uncountable) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. (countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable) Delirium tremens.

Frequenza

B2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈhɒɹ.ə/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

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 ōga.

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