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What is another word for lilts?

Pronunciation: [lˈɪlts] (IPA)

Lilts are often associated with music or speech patterns that have a light, pleasant rhythm. Some synonyms for this word include cadence, lilt, inflection, intonation, modulation, rhythm, flow, and melody. Each of these words refers to the way in which words are spoken or read, and how they interact with one another. When a person speaks or sings with a lilt, they often use a sing-song pattern that is pleasing to the ear. This rhythmic quality in music and speech can make a message or melody much more memorable, and it can help to create an emotional connection with the listener or audience.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Lilts

Being then but a mere novice in music, he added, in the copy, such musical notes, as, he supposed, might give your father some notion of the airs, or rather lilts, to which they were sung."
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
For poetry is too often schwaermerei, a thing of lilts; when it conveys philosophical ideas, as in Browning and in that prose writer gone astray, Shakespeare, it suffers the agonising pains of constriction.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
They sat together in the window of the eastern tower of Ellerslie: and while he listened to the cheerful lilts to which their servants were dancing, the hand of his lovely bride was clasped in his.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter

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