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Definition: Lilting |
LiltingAdjective1. Characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lilting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonyms: LiltingSynonyms: swinging (adj), swingy (adj), tripping (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lilting |
| English words defined with "lilting": clean, clear ♦ light ♦ swinging, swingy ♦ tripping ♦ unclouded. (references) |
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| "Lilting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.72% of the time. "Lilting" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 51.72% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 48.28% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "lilting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | cadencé. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | trällernd (humming, trolling). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ρυθμικόσ (rhythmic, rhythmical). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lendületes ritmus (lilting metre), ringó járásmód (lilting gait), ringó járás (lilt, lilting gait, rolling gait), hintázó járásmód (lilting gait), hintázó járás (lilt, lilting gait), eleven ritmus (lilting metre). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | jannoo carr. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iltinglay rikt modulerad. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lilting": liltingly, liltingness, liltingnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Lilting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: linting, Liptint, litting, lotling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tilling. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: tiling. | |
-2 letters: glint. | |
-3 letters: gill, gilt, inti, lilt, ling, lint, nill, till, ting. | |
-4 letters: gin, git, ill, lin, lit, nil, nit, til, tin. | |
-5 letters: in, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: stilling, trilling, twilling. | |
+2 letters: billeting, filleting, liltingly, thrilling, tillering, twillings. | |
+3 letters: belittling, diligently, distilling, flatlining, guillotine, installing, instilling, limitingly, outkilling, outwilling, palliating, pistolling, stiflingly, tinglingly, tinselling, trellising, trilingual, vigilantly, willingest. | |
+4 letters: alleviating, antilogical, bullbaiting, bulletining, colligating, colligation, collimating, genitivally, gillnetting, guillotined, guillotines, helilifting, initialling, insultingly, intelligent, inthralling, legislating, legislation, liltingness, limnologist, metallizing, multiplying, oscillating, palletising, palletizing, pelletising, pelletizing, pollinating, rototilling, slightingly, stellifying, stencilling, thrillingly, titillating, vacillating, victualling, vitriolling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6C 74 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. .-.. - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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