Threat | Mean of threat in English Dictionary

/ˈθrɛt/

• Noun
• a statement saying you will be harmed if you do not do what someone wants you to do
1. He was willing to use violence and threats to get what he wanted.
2. She ignored their threats and continued to do what she felt was right.
3. bomb/death threats
4. He carried out his threat. [=he did the thing that he threatened to do]
5. She said she would leave him, but he knew it was an idle/empty threat. [=he knew that she did not mean it]
6. an action done under threat [=done by someone who has been threatened with harm]
• someone or something that could cause trouble, harm, etc.
1. The country is a great/major/serious threat to world peace.
2. He perceived the question as a threat to his authority.
3. These people are not a threat to the social order.
4. Their financial problems are a threat to their marriage.
• the possibility that something bad or harmful could happen
1. We can't ignore the threat posed by nuclear weapons.
2. The weather forecast calls for cloudy skies with a threat of rain.
3. There is a real threat of civil war.
4. a country under threat of civil war