Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

    trillern

    sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below

  2. (transitive)To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

    to trill a note, or the letter r

    pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme /r/

  3. (intransitive, obsolete)To trickle.

    Whisper'd sounds / Of waters, trilling from the riven stone.

  4. (intransitive, obsolete)To twirl.

Examples

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  1. I can make a linguolabial trill.

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  2. It is difficult to execute trills properly.

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  3. I likes the women's trilling in wedding.

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  4. She ended the song with a brilliant trill.

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  5. The nightingale's trill woke me up early in the morning.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make a tremulous sound:

Origin

From Middle English trillen, from Italian trillo, trillare. Compare German trillern, Norwe

From Middle English trillen, from Italian trillo, trillare. Compare German trillern, Norwegian trille, Swedish trilla.

Perhaps identical to Etymology 3, but compare the same sense of drill, and German trillen, drillen.

Probably related to Old English þweran (“to twirl, stir”). Compare twirl, thirl, and Swedish trilla, Norwegian trille, etc.

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Forms

trills, trilling, trilled, trilled
Base formtrill · to trill
3rd person singulartrills
Present participletrilling
Past simpletrilled
Past participletrilled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrill
he, she, ittrills

Past simpleLesson

all personstrilled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave trilled
he, she, ithas trilled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trill

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below:warblequaver

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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