Meaning of Dread | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
   countable, uncountable
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
   countable, uncountable
3. Somebody or something dreaded.
   countable, uncountable
4. A person highly revered.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. Fury; dreadfulness.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. A Rastafarian.
   countable, uncountable
7. Clipping of dreadlock.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, in-plural, slang, uncountable
8. Clipping of dreadnought.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, historical, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“My visit to the doctor is filling me with dread.”

“the secret dread of divine displeasure”

“the dread of something after death”

“They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.”

“In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.”

“The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.”

“His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.”

“Una, his dear dread”

“The mightie ones, affrayd of every chaunges dread”

“Jesus Christ had dreads / So shake 'em / I ain't got none / But I'm planning on growing some.”

“The Royal Navy sent six dreads and four BCs to intercept the German raiding force.”

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