Terror
See also: terror
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun form of terror. Translation of French Terreur, as coined by the Thermidorian Reaction
Proper noun
[edit]Terror
- (politics, history, usually with the) The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
- (politics, history, usually with the) Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.
Synonyms
[edit](phase of French Revolution): Great Terror
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Terror m (strong, genitive Terrors, no plural)
- terror
- Synonym: Schrecken m
- 1911 September, Leon Trotzky, “Über den Terror”, in Der Kampf[1]; translated into English as Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism[2], 2006 November:
- Und die einzige Frage bleibt, ob die bürgerlichen Politiker das Recht haben, kübelweise moralische Entrüstung über den proletarischen Terrorismus auszugießen, wenn ihr ganzer Staatsapparat mit seinen Gesetzen, seiner Polizei, seiner Armee nichts anderes als ein Apparat für kapitalistischen Terror ist!
- And the only question remaining is whether the bourgeois politicians have the right to pour out their flood of moral indignation about proletarian terrorism when their entire state apparatus with its laws, police and army is nothing but an apparatus for capitalist terror!
Declension
[edit]Declension of Terror [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- Terrorakt, Terroralarm, Terrorangriff, Terroranschlag, Terrorattacke, Terrorbande, Terrorbekämpfung, Terrorgefahr, Terrorgruppe, Terrorherrschaft, Terrororganisation, Terrorvereinigung, Terrorzelle
- Bombenterror, Luftterror, Psychoterror, Staatsterror, Telefonterror