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feminine

/ɔ.ʁœʁ/

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Translation

horror

Word origin

From Latin horror ('a bristling, a shudder, dread'), from horrere ('to bristle, to tremble'). The very common French phrase avoir horreur de means to loathe something rather than merely to fear it. English 'horror', 'horrid' and 'abhor' share the root.

Origin: Latin
Root: horror
English cognates: horror, horrid, abhor

Grammar

Genderfeminine

Pluralhorreurs

Examples

She loathes spiders.

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I hate being woken up before seven o'clock.

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A horror film has no effect on me any more.

He watched the scene in horror.

Quelle , peint !

What a horror that wallpaper is!

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This word is part of lesson 34.