lilts
Meaning of lilts
plural noun
- a characteristic rising and falling of the voice when speaking; a pleasant gentle accent.
he spoke with a faint but recognizable Irish lilt
- speak, sing, or sound with a lilt.
the music lilted and swaggered in a dance rhythm
late Middle English lulte (in the senses ‘sound an alarm’ or ‘lift up the voice’), of unknown origin.
Information about lilts
- The singular form of lilts is: lilt.
- Languages in which lilts is used:
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Hyphenation of lilts
lilts
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- lilts is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
lilts synonyms
Meaning a modulation or inflection of the voice:
Meaning the modulation of intonation or pitch in the voice:
Meaning the rise and fall of the voice in speaking:
Meaning an increase in strength or quantity; an upward trend:
Meaning special importance, value, or prominence given to something:
Meaning pressure or tension exerted on a material object:
Meaning the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodical stress:
Meaning a style of jazz or dance music with a flowing but vigorous rhythm:
Meaning a rhythmical movement from side to side:
Meaning a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry:
Meaning a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them, typically as felt in the wrists or neck:
Meaning a plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose:
Meaning the SI base unit of length (equivalent to approximately 39.37 inches), first introduced as a unit of length in the metric system:
Meaning the speed at which a passage of music is or should be played:
Anagrams of lilts
Words that rhyme with lilts
gilts, hilts, jilts, kilts, skilts, milts, silts, stilts, tilts, uptilts, bedquilts, bloodguilts, guilts, nonguilts, quilts, Wilts, twilts, wilts
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