Treble

Quick meaning: Treble is an adjective meaning (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.

Meaning

(music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.

More Meanings

1. (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
2. (music) A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
3. The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
4. Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
5. (dated) Threefold, triple.
6. (dated) Trebly; triply.
7. (dated) A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.

Example Sentences

Whose deserts might buy him treble

A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.

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

Word Forms

• trebles
• trebling
• trebled

Synonyms for treble

Depending on context, synonyms include triple, triplicate, high-pitched, strident, tern, ternary.

Antonyms for treble

Common opposites include third, tripartition, trisect, deep.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soprano, dual, double, multiple, twofold, triple.

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