Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trilling

1 sense of trilling

Sense 1
Trilling, Lionel Trilling -- (United States literary critic (1905-1975))
       INSTANCE OF=> literary critic -- (a critic of literature)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb trill

2 senses of trill

Sense 1
trill -- (pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's")
       => pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say -- (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?")

Sense 2
warble, trill, quaver -- (sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below)
       => sing -- (produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well")

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