LILT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lilt mean? 

• LILT (noun)
  The noun LILT has 1 sense:

1. a jaunty rhythm in music

  Familiarity information: LILT used as a noun is very rare.

• LILT (verb)
  The verb LILT has 1 sense:

1. articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way

  Familiarity information: LILT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LILT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A jaunty rhythm in music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lilt; swing

Hypernyms ("lilt" is a kind of...):

rhythmicity (the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music)

Derivation:

lilt (articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way)

• LILT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lilt    ... he / she / it lilts   
Past simple: lilted   
Past participle: lilted   
-ing form: lilting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "lilt" is one way to...):

articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

lilt (a jaunty rhythm in music)

 Context examples 

Nearer and clearer, swelling up out of the night, came the gay marching lilt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You’ll have Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto there, and, as of February 16, Mars joined this group, giving an extra lilt and vibrancy to this area of your life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The merry lilt with which he had invested the jingle was at variance with the dejection that came into his face as he finished.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Possibly I recited with a certain joyous lilt which was my own, for—his memory was good, and at a second rendering, very often the first, he made a quatrain his own—he recited the same lines and invested them with an unrest and passionate revolt that was well-nigh convincing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Methinks I have some remembrance of the lilt,” remarked the gleeman, running his fingers over the strings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he chanced upon Kipling's poems, and was swept away by the lilt and swing and glamour with which familiar things had been invested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Twang us a merry lilt.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced that out of one of the bundles there stuck the end of what the clerk saw to be a cittern, so drawing it forth, he tuned it up and twanged a harmony to the merry lilt which the dancers played.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)