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SILLS
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• SILLS (noun)
The noun SILLS has 1 sense:
1. United States operatic soprano (born in 1929)
Familiarity information: SILLS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States operatic soprano (born in 1929)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Belle Miriam Silverman; Beverly Sills; Sills
Instance hypernyms:
soprano (a female singer)
Context examples
They found that some of the glaciers balance on giant earthen sills that are protecting them, for now.
(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)
About a week ago—it was the Tuesday of last week—I found on one of the window-sills a number of absurd little dancing figures like these upon the paper.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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