thriller

See also: Thriller

English

Etymology

thrill +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪlɚ/
• 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

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): horror movie, hard-boiled 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
• Swedish: rysare (sv) c
• Turkish: gerilim (tr)
• Ukrainian: три́лер m (trýler)

See also

• chiller

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.lɛʁ/, (anglicized) /sʁi.lœʁ/

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers)

1. thriller

Further reading

• “thriller” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Noun

thriller m (invariable)

1. thriller (film, book etc)

Further reading

• thriller in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers or thriller)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)

Further reading

• “thriller” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.