What Part of Speech Is Threat

part of speech:transitive verbinflections:threatens, threatening, threatened

Is threat a noun or verb?

Threat can also mean a warning or sign that harm or trouble is coming, as in The news was seen as a threat of problems in the very near future. The verb threaten means to make a threat, as in Don’t you dare threaten me!

What type of noun is threat?

[countable, usually singular] threat (to something) a person or thing that is likely to cause trouble, danger, etc. He is unlikely to be a threat to the Spanish player in the final. Drugs pose a major threat to our society.