thriller

From thrill +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪlə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪlɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

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:

     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.
3. (beverages) A sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea flavored with a fruit or berry.

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

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

• (A suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction): ecothriller, horror movie, hard-boiled crime fiction

• chiller
• page-turner

Borrowed from English thriller.

thriller m inan

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

• thriller in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Borrowed from English thriller.

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

thriller m (plural thrillers)

1. thriller

   Hyponym: éco-thriller

• “thriller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English thriller.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtril.ler/[1]
• Rhymes: -iller
• Hyphenation: thrìl‧ler

thriller m (invariable)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)

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

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.lɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ilɛr
• Syllabification: thri‧ller

thriller m inan

1. thriller (literary genre)

   Synonym: dreszczowiec

2. thriller (film genre)

   Synonym: dreszczowiec

• thriller in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• thriller in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

thriller n (plural thrillere)

1. thriller

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθrileɾ/ [ˈθ̬ri.leɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsrileɾ/ [ˈzri.leɾ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾileɾ/ [ˈt̪ɾi.leɾ]
• Rhymes: -ileɾ

thriller m (plural thrillers or thriller)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)

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.

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

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

thriller c

1. a thriller (book, movie, etc.)

• actionthriller
• dramathriller
• spionthriller
• thrillerdrama
• thrillerserie

• thriller in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• thriller in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• thriller in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)