thriller

See also: Thriller

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Thriller (genre)

Wikipedia

Etymology

From thrill +‎ -er (suffix: agent noun).

Pronunciation

• enPR: thrĭl′ər
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪl.ə/

  Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹɪl.əɹ/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈθɹəl.ɐ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ʰɾi.ləɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: thrill‧er

Noun

thriller (plural thrillers)

1. (generally) 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.

3. (film, literature) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.

   Synonym: pulp novel

   Hypernyms: detective story, mystery novel, whodunit, crime fiction

   Hyponyms: ecothriller, horror movie, hard-boiled crime fiction

   She loves to read thriller books.

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

Derived terms

• ecothriller

Translations

something that thrills

Maori: pohopā, paki pohopā (a story/book)

a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction

Arabic: إِثَارَة (ar) f (ʔiṯāra), (film) فِلْم مُثِيرَة f (film muṯīra), (novel) قِصَّة مُثِيرَة f (qiṣṣa muṯīra), قِصَّة مُثِيرَة f (qiṣṣa muṯīra), ثْرِيلَّر m (ṯrillar) Armenian: թրիլլեր (hy) (tʻriller) Belarusian: тры́лер m (trýljer) Bulgarian: три́лър m (trílǎr) Chinese: Mandarin: 驚悚 / 惊悚 (zh) (jīngsǒng) Czech: thriller m Danish: knaldroman c Dutch: thriller (nl) c Esperanto: trilero Estonian: triller Finnish: trilleri (fi), jännäri (fi), jännitysromaani (novel), jännityselokuva (movie), jännitysnäytelmä (play), jännityskertomus (rare, formal) French: polar (fr) m, thriller (fr) m Galician: suspense (gl) Georgian: თრილერი (trileri) German: Thriller (de) m Greek: θρίλερ (el) n (thríler) Hungarian: thriller (hu) Icelandic: reyfari m Ido: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: mencekam (id) Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Italian: thriller (it) m Japanese: スリラー (surirā) Korean: 스릴러 (seurilleo) Latvian: trilleris m Lithuanian: trileris m Macedonian: три́лер m (tríler) Maori: paki pohopā (of a book), pikitia pohopā (of a film) Marathi: थ्रिलर (thrilar) Norwegian: Bokmål: grøsser Nynorsk: grøssar Persian: دلهره‌آور (delhore-âvar), مهیج (fa) (mohayyej) Polish: dreszczowiec (pl) m inan, thriller (pl) m inan, film sensacyjny m inan Portuguese: suspense (pt) m Romanian: thriller (ro) n Russian: три́ллер (ru) m (tríller) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: три̏лер m Roman: trȉler (sh) m Slovak: triler m Slovene: triler (sl) m Spanish: suspense m, thriller m, tríler m (Chile) Swedish: rysare (sv) c, thriller (sv) c Turkish: gerilim (tr) Ukrainian: три́лер m (trýler) Volapük: please add this translation if you can Welsh: iasoer (cy)

sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea

Maori: please add this translation if you can

See also

• chiller
• page-turner

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

thriller

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtrɪlɛr]
• Rhymes: -ɪlɛr
• Hyphenation: thril‧ler

Noun

thriller m inan

2. (film, literature) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)

Declension

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

• “thriller”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

thriller

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɪ.lər/, [ˈθrɪ.lər]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪlər
• Hyphenation: thril‧ler

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers, diminutive thrillertje n)

2. (film, literature) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Thriller (genre)

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.lœʁ/, (anglicized) /sʁi.lœʁ/
• Hyphenation: thril‧ler

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers)

2. (film, literature) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)

   Hyponym: éco-thriller

Derived terms

• éco-thriller

Further reading

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