treble
/ˈtɹɛbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.
noun
The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
noun
Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
Example Sentences
- "He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born."
- "A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls."
- "Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more."
- "The treble walls and ditches on the land side … diminish the extent of ground covered with houses."
- "At the surface of the water it's fourteen pounds to the inch, thirty feet down it's double that; sixty, treble; ninety, four times"
- "Whose deserts might buy him treble"
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: treble, triplus
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.