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See also: Thriller
English
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɹɪlə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɹɪlɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]thriller (plural thrillers)
- Something that thrills.
- 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian[1]:
- While Arsenal had enjoyed a Boxing Day break thanks to the cancellation of their game against West Ham, Newcastle had come out of the wrong end of a thriller at Old Trafford and Pardew said that strain accounted for his side conceding four goals at the Emirates after Demba Ba had drawn Newcastle level for the third time in the 69th minute.
- (film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.
- (beverages) A sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea flavored with a fruit or berry.
Synonyms
[edit]- (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): pulp novel
Hypernyms
[edit]- (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): detective story, mystery novel, whodunit, crime fiction
Hyponyms
[edit]- (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): ecothriller, horror movie, hard-boiled crime fiction
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]something that thrills
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a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction
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See also
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English thriller.
Noun
[edit]thriller m inan
- thriller (suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.)
Declension
[edit]Declension of thriller (hard masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | thriller | thrillery |
| genitive | thrilleru | thrillerů |
| dative | thrilleru | thrillerům |
| accusative | thriller | thrillery |
| vocative | thrillere | thrillery |
| locative | thrilleru | thrillerech |
| instrumental | thrillerem | thrillery |
Further reading
[edit]- “thriller”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English thriller.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thriller m (plural thrillers)
- thriller
- Hyponym: éco-thriller
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “thriller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English thriller.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thriller m (invariable)
- thriller (film, book etc.)
References
[edit]- ^ thriller in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- thriller in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thriller m inan
- thriller (literary genre)
- Synonym: dreszczowiec
- thriller (film genre)
- Synonym: dreszczowiec
Declension
[edit]Declension of thriller
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | thriller | thrillery |
| genitive | thrillera | thrillerów |
| dative | thrillerowi | thrillerom |
| accusative | thriller | thrillery |
| instrumental | thrillerem | thrillerami |
| locative | thrillerze | thrillerach |
| vocative | thrillerze | thrillery |
Further reading
[edit]- thriller in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- thriller in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.
Noun
[edit]thriller n (plural thrillere)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | thriller | thrillerul | thrillere | thrillerele | |
| genitive-dative | thriller | thrillerului | thrillere | thrillerelor | |
| vocative | thrillerule | thrillerelor | |||
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθrileɾ/ [ˈθ̬ri.leɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsrileɾ/ [ˈzri.leɾ]
- IPA(key): /ˈtɾileɾ/ [ˈt̪ɾi.leɾ]
- Rhymes: -ileɾ
Noun
[edit]thriller m (plural thrillers or thriller)
- thriller (film, book etc.)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “thriller”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.
Noun
[edit]thriller c
- a thriller (book, movie, etc.)
Declension
[edit]Declension of thriller
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪlə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɪlə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Film
- en:Literature
- en:Genres
- Czech terms borrowed from English
- Czech terms derived from English
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/iller
- Rhymes:Italian/iller/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ilɛr
- Rhymes:Polish/ilɛr/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Film genres
- pl:Literary genres
- Romanian terms borrowed from English
- Romanian unadapted borrowings from English
- Romanian terms derived from English
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from English
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- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ileɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/ileɾ/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple plurals
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish unadapted borrowings from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns