LILT


Meaning of LILT in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Michelle spoke with a soothing Southern lilt .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At extremely fast tempos this lilt is lost and they even out as they would in a funk or fusion context.

Even if you have a tape recorder, the tone and the lilt of the voice can change what a phrase means.

Even this gesture, a mercenary movement, had about it the lilt of broken syllables.

For one thing it is devoid of the relentless lilt and terminological tedium of the professional programme writer.

Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter.

His voice has a racy fluency blended with the intuitive lilt of generations.

In Minnesota and states of the northern Midwest a Scandinavian lilt is apparent in the local accent.

Joe was the stylist, throwing in literary references and lingering over their prose until it had a lilt .

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