MEANING
A pleasantly swinging rhythm or rise and fall in voice or music.
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- lilt in a voice
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A lilt softened her voice.
The melody had a dancing lilt.
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular lilt; plural lilts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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