adj
Meaning 1
Real.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
rill
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɹɪl/
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rhymes with -ɪl
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noun
Meaning 2
A very small brook; a streamlet; a creek, rivulet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of rille.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences, planetology
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verb
Meaning 4
To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
a small channel (as one formed by soil erosion)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: channel
noun
Meaning 6
a small stream
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stream, watercourse
History
Etymology
A stylized variant of real prevalent in hip-hop.
From or akin to West Frisian ril (“rill; a narrow channel”), Dutch ril (“rill; gully; trench; watercourse”), German Low German Rille, Rill (“a small channel; brook; furrow”), German Rille (“a groove; furrow”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Aragonese: lavallo — very small brook
- Bulgarian: ручей (ručej) — very small brook
- Bulgarian: поточе (potoče) — very small brook
- Czech: potůček — very small brook
- Czech: stružka — very small brook
- Finnish: noro — very small brook
- French: ruisselet — very small brook
- Hungarian: ér — very small brook
- Hungarian: csermely — very small brook
- Irish: sruthán — very small brook
- Irish: sruthlán — very small brook
- Irish: silteán — very small brook
- Russian: ручеёк (ručejók) — very small brook
- Serbo-Croatian: по̀точић — very small brook
- Serbo-Croatian: pòtočić — very small brook
- Spanish: arroyito — very small brook
- Swedish: rännil — very small brook
- Ukrainian: струмо́чок (strumóčok) — very small brook
- Czech: crčet — to trickle like a small stream