n A
loud,
emphatic,
exclamation of extreme
emotion, usually
horror,
fear,
excitement et cetera. Can be the exclamation of a word, but is usually a sustained,
high-
pitched vowel sound, particularly /æ/ or /i/, in any case, the loudest and most emphatic sound a human can make tends to be a scream. The term is not generally applied to sounds made by non-humans.