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Treble   /trˈɛbəl/   Listen
noun
Treble  n.  (Mus.) The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. Note: This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices.



adjective
Treble  adj.  
1.
Threefold; triple. "A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls."
2.
(Mus.)
(a)
Acute; sharp; as, a treble sound.
(b)
Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice.



verb
Treble  v. t.  (past & past part. trebled; pres. part. trebling)  
1.
To make thrice as much; to make threefold. "Love trebled life."
2.
To utter in a treble key; to whine. (Obs.) "He outrageously (When I accused him) trebled his reply."



Treble  v. i.  To become threefold.



adverb
Treble  adv.  Trebly; triply. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Treble" Quotes from Famous Books



... your Serene Highness, I am here!" answered a very thin treble; and, bustling through the surrounding crowd, came forward the owner of the voice. Master Rodolph was not much above five feet high, but he was nearly as broad as he was long. Though more than middle-aged, an almost infantile ...
— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield

... read history," interposed the childish treble of Mendel. "If we did we should know more about ...
— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith

... in the gallery that lined three sides of the house, treble, counter, tenor, and bass, each with its appropriate leaders and supporters; there were generally seated the bloom of our young people; sparkling, modest, and blushing girls on one side, with their ribbons and finery, making the place where they sat as blooming and lively as a flower ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... need of mutual protection and assistance ultimately welded these indiscriminate families into communities of ever-varying extent, and the movement of these huge troops and transportation of their baggage becoming more and more difficult (vehicles being unknown and horses, perhaps, treble-toed, wily and ferocious) and food, which until then had only been obtained in a fugitive state, becoming less easy of access, these communities were forced to select a settled habitation, scratch the earth for provender, settled down to the breeding of one-toed ...
— Here are Ladies • James Stephens

... of mountains runs through its whole extent, the ranges being in many parts double and treble, but situated in general much nearer to the western than the opposite coast, being on the former seldom so much as twenty miles from the sea, whilst on the eastern side the extent of level country, in the broader ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden


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