Rill

//ɹɪl//

Synonyms for "rill" (14 found)

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Noun(2 words)

Related words (7)

Related word relations

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Translations

18 translations across 12 languages.

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Aragonese

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  • lavallo noun (very small brook)

Bulgarian

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  • поточе noun (very small brook)
  • ручей noun (very small brook)

Czech

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  • potůček noun (very small brook)
  • stružka noun (very small brook)

Finnish

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  • noro noun (very small brook)

French

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  • ruisselet noun (very small brook)

Hungarian

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  • csermely noun (very small brook)
  • ér noun (very small brook)

Irish

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  • silteán noun (very small brook)
  • sruthlán noun (very small brook)
  • sruthán noun (very small brook)

Russian

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  • ручеёк noun (very small brook)

Serbo-Croatian

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  • pòtočić noun (very small brook)
  • по̀точић noun (very small brook)

Spanish

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  • arroyito noun (very small brook)

Swedish

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  • rännil noun (very small brook)

Ukrainian

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  • струмо́чок noun (very small brook)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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[N]or yet beside the rill / Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he

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So twice five miles of fertile ground / With walls and towers were girdled round: / And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, / Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree; / And here were forests ancient as the hills, / And folding sunny spots of greenery.

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The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.

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"Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about."

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