Usually means: Genre evoking fear, shock, disgust.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word horror:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. horror: Merriam-Webster
  2. horror, horror: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horror: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horror: Collins English Dictionary
  5. horror: Vocabulary.com
  6. Horror, horror: Wordnik
  7. horror: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. horror: Wiktionary
  9. horror: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. horror: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. horror: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. horror: Dictionary.com
  13. horror: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. horror: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Horror (Garo), Horror (emotion), Horror (fiction), Horror (genre), Horror (movie), Horror (video games), Horror, The Horror: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Horror: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. horror: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. horror: Rhymezone
  19. horror, horror: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. horror: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. horror: FreeDictionary.org
  22. horror: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. horror: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. horror: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. horror: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Horror (disambiguation), horror: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Horror (disambiguation), Horror: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. horror: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Horror: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Horror (disambiguation), horror: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. horror: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
noun:  (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
noun:  (countable) An individual work in this genre.
noun:  (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
noun:  (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
noun:  (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.

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