thriller

See also: Thriller

English

Etymology

From thrill +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

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

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

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

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
• Indonesian: mencekam (id)
• 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, thriller (pl) m, film sensacyjny m
• 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 (es) m
• Swedish: rysare (sv) c, thriller (sv) c
• Turkish: gerilim (tr)
• Ukrainian: три́лер m (trýler)
• Welsh: iasoer (cy)

See also

• chiller
• page-turner

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Noun

thriller m inan

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

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)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers)

1. thriller

   Hyponym: éco-thriller

Derived terms

• éco-thriller

 

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English thriller.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

thriller m (invariable)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.lɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilɛr
• Syllabification: thri‧ller

Noun

thriller m inan

1. thriller (literary genre)

   Synonym: dreszczowiec

2. thriller (film genre)

   Synonym: dreszczowiec

Declension

Declension of thriller

	singular	plural
nominative	thriller	thrillery
genitive	thrillera	thrillerów
dative	thrillerowi	thrillerom
accusative	thriller	thrillery
instrumental	thrillerem	thrillerami
locative	thrillerze	thrillerach
vocative	thrillerze	thrillery

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

Noun

thriller n (plural thrillere)

1. thriller

Declension

Declension of thriller

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) thriller	thrillerul	(niște) thrillere	thrillerele
genitive/dative	(unui) thriller	thrillerului	(unor) thrillere	thrillerelor
vocative	thrillerule		thrillerelor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

thriller m (plural thrillers or thriller)

1. thriller (film, book etc.)

Usage notes

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.

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English thriller.

Noun

thriller c

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

Declension

Declension of thriller
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	thriller	thrillern	thrillers, thrillrar	thrillrarna
Genitive	thrillers	thrillerns	thrillers, thrillrars	thrillrarnas

Derived terms

• actionthriller
• dramathriller
• spionthriller
• thrillerdrama
• thrillerserie

References

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