thriller

See also Thriller

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

to thrill + -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(r)

Noun

thriller (plural thrillers)

1. Something that thrills.
2. (chiefly) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.

Synonyms

• (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): pulp novel

Hyponyms

• (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): horror movie, hardboiled crime fiction

Hypernyms

• (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): detective story, mystery novel, whodunit, crime fiction

Translations

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction

Arabic: إثارة (ar) ('ithaara) f., (film) فلم مثيرة (ar) (film muthiira) f., (novel) قصة مثيرة (ar) (qíSSa muthiira) f., قصة مثيرة (ar) (qíSSa muthiira) f., ثريلر (ar) (thríllar) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 驚悚 (cmn), 惊悚 (cmn) (jīngsǒng) Finnish: jännityskertomus (fi) French: polar (fr)

German: Thriller (de) m. Greek: θρίλερ (el) (thríler) n. Japanese: スリラー (ja) (surirā) Korean: 스릴러 (ko) (seulilleo) Russian: триллер (ru) (tríller) m. Spanish: thriller (es) m.

See also

• chiller

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

thriller m. inv.

1. thriller (film, book etc)