Standard Lemma guide
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.
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adj
Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Synonyms: high-pitched, strident
Antonyms: deep
adj
Threefold, triple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
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Synonyms: tern, ternary, threefold, treble, triadic, trinary, trine, triple
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Trebly; triply.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, not-comparable
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Synonyms: thrice, threefold, thricely, treble, trebly, triply
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: darts, games
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noun
Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
A win in the top league, top national cup and top continental cup in the same season.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
Alternative form of tribble (“frame for drying paper”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
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Synonyms: triple
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verb
To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, intransitive
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verb
To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: keen, screech, shrill
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To utter in a treble key; to whine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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adjective satellite
having or denoting a high range
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: soprano
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities- R.W.Emerson-Frederick Harrison
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, threefold, three-fold
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
having three units or components or elements
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ternary, triple, triplex
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
three times as great or many
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: threefold, three-fold, triple
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the pitch range of the highest female voice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: soprano
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pitch
verb
increase threefold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: triple
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: multiply, manifold
verb
sing treble
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sing
History
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.
Across languages
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
