ホラー

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English horror.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

ホラー • (horā) 

  1. horror (as a genre or element of fiction)
    ホラー映(えい)画(が)
    horā eiga
    a horror film
    • 2002 January 17, Yukiru Sugisaki, “STAGE(ステージ)３(さん)　Vol.(ボリューム)５(ご)”, in [D](ディー)・[N](エヌ)・[ANGEL](エンジェル)・ [D.N.Angel], volume 6 (fiction), Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, →ISBN, page 10:
      映(えい)画(が)ですってぇ⁉アトラクションエリアじゃなくてムービーエリアに行(い)っちゃったの⁉大(たい)変(へん)‼もしかして　今(いま)　大(だい)人(にん)気(き)の「片(ワン)手(ハンド)」とかゆうホラームービー⁉
      Eiga desuttē⁉ Atorakushon Eria ja nakute Mūbī Eria ni itchatta no⁉ Taihen‼ Moshikashite ima daininki no “Wan Hando” toka yū horā mūbī⁉
      A movie!? They went to the Movie Area instead of the Attraction Area!? Oh no!! Is there a screening of that popular horror movie called One Hand now!?

Synonyms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. “ホラー”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. “ホラー”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  4. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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