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Definition of Thriller
1. Noun. A suspenseful adventure story or play or movie.
Definition of Thriller
1. Noun. Something that thrills. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly) A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thriller
1. one that thrills [n -S] - See also: thrills
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thriller
Literary usage of Thriller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fares, Please!: And Other Essays on Practical Themes by Halford Edward Luccock (1916)
"Life to a large number of people is just that —a Giant thriller. It holds just
so much "permanent possibility of sensation." Its final end is not so much ..."
2. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... Christophe Den Tandt Down These (Gender-Divided and Ethnically Fractured) Mean
Streets: The Urban thriller in the Age of Multiculturalism and Minority ..."
3. From the First Shot: A Picture History of the Great Waredited by Hannah White edited by Hannah White (1918)
"oA four-act thriller: the destruction of an observation balloon and the escape
of its crew. In the first picture the French war- plane has fired incendiary ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Trap for a Lonely Man, thriller by Robert Thomas (Michael Bryant. ... How Are
You, Johnnie?, thriller by Philip King (Ian McShane, Derek Fowlds, ..."
5. My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-known American by Authors' League of America (1921)
"I had been reading Shakespeare — and that was how I got my thriller. And it was
because it was a thriller that I sold it so readily. All my early tales, ..."
6. My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-known American by Authors' League of America (1921)
"I had been reading Shakespeare—and that was how I got my thriller. And it was
because it was a thriller that I sold it so readily. All my early tales, ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"See thriller. Bailey gives " Thiller, Thill Horse, that Horse that is put under
the Thill." Shakspere has the form fill-horse in Merchant of Venice, II. ii. ..."
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