treble

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛbəl/ Rhymes: -ɛbəl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English treble, from Old French treble, from Latin triplus. Doublet of triple. ==== Adjective ==== treble (not comparable) (music) Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music. Synonyms: high-pitched, strident Antonym: deep (dated) Threefold, triple. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:triple 1837 Penny Cyclopedia, vol. 7, s.v. "Constantinople": The treble walls and ditches on the land side [...] diminish the extent of ground covered with houses. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Adverb ==== treble (not comparable) (dated) Trebly; triply. Synonyms: thrice, threefold; see also Thesaurus:thrice ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== treble (plural trebles) (music) The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition. (music) 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. (dated) A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled. (dated) A drink with three portions of alcohol; a triple (darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment. (sports) Three goals, victories, awards etc. in a given match or season. (soccer) A win in the top league, top national cup and top continental cup in the same season. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== treble (third-person singular simple present trebles, present participle trebling, simple past and past participle trebled) (transitive, dated) To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount. Synonyms: triple; see also Thesaurus:treble (intransitive, dated) To become multiplied by three or increased threefold. (intransitive) To make a shrill or high-pitched noise. Synonyms: keen, screech, shrill (transitive) To utter in a treble key; to whine. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== treble (plural trebles) Alternative form of tribble (“frame for drying paper”). === Anagrams === Belter, Beltre, Elbert, Lebert, belter == Old French == === Etymology === From Latin triplus. === Adjective === treble m (oblique and nominative feminine singular treble) treble; triple ==== Descendants ==== → Middle English: treble English: treble === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “treble”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.