Definition of Triller

1. Noun. A small passerine bird of the genus ''Lalage'' belonging to the cuckoo-shrike family ''Campephagidae'', so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triller

1. one that trills [n -S] - See also: trills

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triller

trilinguist
trilinguists
triliteral
triliteralism
triliteralisms
triliterals
trilith
trilithic
trilithionite
trilithon
trilithons
triliths
trill
trillachan
trilled
triller (current term)
trillers
trilliard
trilling
trillings
trillion
trillion floating point operations per second
trillionaire
trillionaires
trillionairess
trillionairesses
trillionfold
trillions
trillionth
trillionths

Literary usage of Triller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Luther's Pastors: The Reformation in the Ernestine Countryside by Susan C. Karant-Nunn (1979)
"When Caspar triller died in 1562, he had been pastor in Graba near Saalfeld ... The duke ascertained from his Schösser in Saalfeld that triller had bought ..."

2. Studies in Musical Graces by Ernest Fowles (1907)
"triller. UNTERBROCHENER — A broken or intermittent trill. triller VON OBEN. (Ger.) The trill with preparation from above. Vide Ex. 10, Sec. III. ..."

3. Annual Report of the City Engineer by Toronto City Engineer's Dept (1902)
"46 ft., being to the east street line of triller Avenue, Cedar, ... 48ft., from the west street line, iif triller Avenue, westward, is Hemlock, ..."

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