dread

Meanings

Verb

• To fear greatly.
• To anticipate with fear.
• To be in dread, or great fear.
• To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

Noun

• Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• Somebody or something dreaded.
• A person highly revered.
• Fury; dreadfulness.
• A Rastafarian.
• dreadlock

Adjective

• Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
• Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

Origin

• From Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan, aphetic form of ondrǣdan, from and- + rǣdan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.
• Akin to Old Saxon antdrādan, andrādan, Old High German intrātan, Middle High German entrāten.