Synonyms for trill
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : tril |
| Phonetic Transcription : trɪl |
Définition of trill
Origin :- 1640s, from Italian trillio, triglio "a quavering or warbling in singing," probably of imitative origin. The verb is 1660s, from Italian trillare "to quaver, trill." Related: Trilled; trilling.
- verb warble
- Fomishka warbled out and waited for Snandulia to play the trill.
- Extract from : « Virgin Soil » by Ivan S. Turgenev
- Outside she could hear the sigh of the oaks and the trill of young voices.
- Extract from : « The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories » by Margaret Collier Graham
- Who teaches the young chipper to trill, and the young linnet to warble?
- Extract from : « Birds in the Bush » by Bradford Torrey
- The only sound he could hear was the trill and chirp of the insects of the woods.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle » by Victor Appleton
- He indulged copiously in the trill, which he produced by shaking his head.
- Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray
- No man will ever be able to say 'Amy,' or to say 'Ginevra,' with such a trill as they are saying it.
- Extract from : « Alice Sit-By-The-Fire » by J. M. Barrie
- Is the alternation of the thumb and the second finger desirable in the playing of a trill?
- Extract from : « Piano Playing » by Josef Hofmann
- "No, my dear, not quite," the Dean replied; and his voice had a trill at the back of it like a bird's.
- Extract from : « Rich Relatives » by Compton Mackenzie
- As I reached it, I heard a trill as perfect as Tetrazzini's.
- Extract from : « The Golden Slipper » by Anna Katharine Green
- We cocked our ears, but heard not even so much as the trill of a tree-toad.
- Extract from : « The Voodoo Gold Trail » by Walter Walden
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