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# thriller

«thriller» in Mova's school dictionary: **an exciting book, film or TV show full of suspense and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a thriller, thrillers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thriller is an exciting book, film or TV show full of suspense and danger, often about crime, spies or chases, that keeps you wanting to know what happens next. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#m1)

2) (informal) A thriller is any very exciting event, like a match that is close until the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In reading lessons it is a genre, with features like cliffhangers, a ticking clock, twists and a hero in danger. In sport talk, «a thriller» is a close, exciting game. Phrases: «a spy thriller», «a crime thriller», «a real thriller», «edge of your seat».

### examples

- The spy thriller kept me reading late into the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x1)
- The match was a thriller that ended 4–3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x2)
- A good thriller ends chapters with a cliffhanger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x3)
- Mum likes crime thrillers on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x4)
- That film is a thriller, so it may be too scary for little kids. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x5)
- Our class wrote a short thriller about a stolen painting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x6)
- «Thriller» is also the name of a famous Michael Jackson song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/#x7)

### note

Countable: a thriller, thrillers. From «thrill» (a strong feeling of excitement). A thriller is not exactly a horror story; it is about suspense more than fright, though they can overlap.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thriller» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thriller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.