1 a repeated short high sound made, for example, by sb's voice or by a bird
2 (music) the sound made when two notes next to each other in the musical scale are played or sung quickly several times one after the other
Part of speech: verb
1 [V] to make repeated short high sounds:
A phone trilled on the desk. * The canary was trilling away happily.
2 [Vspeech] to say sth in a high cheerful voice:
'How wonderful!' she trilled.
3 [VN] (phonetics) to pronounce the letter 'r' by VIBRATING the tongue against the top of the mouth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is trill a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, trill is tagged as noun.
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