thriller

See also: Thriller

English

Etymology

thrill +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(r)

Noun

thriller (plural thrillers)

1. 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.

2. (film, literature) 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, hard-boiled crime fiction

Hypernyms

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

Translations

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction

• Arabic: إِثَارَة‎ (ar) f (ʾiṯāra), (film) فِلْم مُثِيرَة‎ f (film muṯīra), (novel) قِصَّة مُثِيرَة‎ f (qiṣṣa muṯīra), قِصَّة مُثِيرَة‎ f (qiṣṣa muṯīra), ثْرِيلَّر‎ m (ṯrillar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驚悚 (zh), 惊悚 (zh) (jīngsǒng)

• Czech: thriller m
• Esperanto: trilero
• Finnish: trilleri (fi), jännäri (fi), jännitysromaani (novel), jännityselokuva (movie), jännitysnäytelmä (play), jännityskertomus (rare, formal)
• French: polar (fr) m, thriller (fr) m
• Galician: suspense (gl)
• German: Thriller (de) m

• Greek: θρίλερ (el) n (thríler)
• Hungarian: thriller (hu)
• Indonesian: mencekam (id)
• Italian: thriller m
• Japanese: スリラー (surirā)
• Korean: 스릴러 (seulilleo)
• Portuguese: suspense (pt) m
• Russian: три́ллер (ru) m (tríller)
• Spanish: suspense m, thriller (es) m

See also

• chiller

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Czech

Noun

thriller m

1. thriller (suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.)

Further reading

• thriller in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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French

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers)

1. thriller

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

thriller m (invariable)

1. thriller (film, book etc)

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Spanish

Etymology

English

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)