treble

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music; soprano.
• High in pitch; shrill.
• Threefold, triple.

Adverb

• Trebly; triply.

Noun

• The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.
• A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.
• The highest tuned in a ring of bells.
• Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.
• A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.
• A drink with three portions of alcohol.
• Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
• Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season.
• Alternative of tribble

Verb

• To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount.
• To become multiplied by three or increased threefold.
• To make a shrill or high-pitched noise.
• To utter in a treble key; to whine.

Related

Similar words

• high-pitched, strident
• keen, screech, shrill
• whine

Opposite words

• bass
• third

Origin

• From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. triple.