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Plural of terror

regular plural

The plural of terror is terrors.

Forms of terror

Singularterror /ˈtɛɹɚ/
Pluralterrors
Countablecountable and uncountable

Terrors in a sentence

  • Those children next door are holy terrors!From the entry holy
  • One of the main terrors of my life has a name!2014 May 2, @theMasqueWriter, X, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2026. From the entry zuigerphobia
  • All round terrors befright him, and they scatter at his feet.2011, The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. From the entry befright
  • We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, “The Heart Has Its Reasons”, in Commonweal. From the entry heart
  • They use cynicism to protect themselves from the terrors of the job.1999 April 22, Roger Ebert, "Pushing Tin" (film review), Chicago Sun Times (retrieved 20 Oct 2011). From the entry aluminum shower

Meaning of terror

  1. noun Intense dread, fright, or fear.
  2. noun The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
  3. noun Something or someone that causes such fear.

Full definition of terror

Questions about the plural of terror

What is the plural of terror?
The plural of terror is terrors.
Is terror countable?
Terror is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: terror (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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