Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.
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Trill
//tɹɪl//
Synonyms for "trill" (112 found)
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63 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَكْرِير noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Armenian
1 entries- թրթռուն noun (vibrating consonant)
Basque
1 entries- dardarkari anizkun noun (vibrating consonant)
Bulgarian
2 entries- трела noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- тремоло noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Catalan
2 entries- consonant vibrant noun (vibrating consonant)
- trinat noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 顫音 /颤音 noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- 顫音 /颤音 noun (vibrating consonant)
Czech
2 entries- trylek noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- trylkovat verb (to make a tremulous sound)
Dutch
1 entries- triller noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Esperanto
1 entries- trilo noun (vibrating consonant)
Finnish
3 entries- tremulantti noun (vibrating consonant)
- trilli noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- täryäänne noun (vibrating consonant)
French
3 entries- consonne roulée noun (vibrating consonant)
- trille noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- triller verb (to make a tremulous sound)
German
3 entries- Triller noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- Vibrant noun (vibrating consonant)
- trillern verb (to make a tremulous sound)
Greek
1 entries- πολυπαλλόμενο noun (vibrating consonant)
Hebrew
2 entries- סִלְסוּל noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- עיצורים מורעדים noun (vibrating consonant)
Icelandic
2 entries- sveifluhljóð noun (vibrating consonant)
- trilla noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Irish
2 entries- consan rollta noun (vibrating consonant)
- tríleach noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Italian
3 entries- consonante vibrante noun (vibrating consonant)
- trillo noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- trillo noun (vibrating consonant)
Japanese
4 entries- トリル noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- 震え音 noun (vibrating consonant)
- 顫動音 noun (vibrating consonant)
- 顫音 noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Korean
2 entries- 전동음 noun (vibrating consonant)
- 트릴 noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Marathi
1 entries- स्वरकंप noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Māori
4 entries- whakahoho noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- whakawanawana noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- wanawana verb (to make a tremulous sound)
- whakahoho verb (to make a tremulous sound)
Polish
3 entries- spółgłoska drżąca noun (vibrating consonant)
- trel noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- tryl noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Portuguese
4 entries- trilo noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- trinado noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- trino noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- vibrante noun (vibrating consonant)
Romanian
1 entries- consoană vibrantă noun (vibrating consonant)
Russian
2 entries- вибри́рующий согла́сный noun (vibrating consonant)
- трель noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Spanish
3 entries- trino noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- vibrante noun (vibrating consonant)
- vibrante múltiple noun (vibrating consonant)
Swedish
3 entries- drill noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- tremulant noun (vibrating consonant)
- vibrant noun (vibrating consonant)
Tagalog
2 entries- kiyebro noun (rapid alternation of notes)
- pakatal noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Thai
1 entries- เสียงรัว noun (vibrating consonant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- láy rền noun (rapid alternation of notes)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown but longed for still. And his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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I can make a linguolabial trill.
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The soft twirl of a leaf, the trill of a bird in the silent forest, were all pixie-whispers.
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