The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
Noun 4 meanings
The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
“I often listen to the twitter of the birds in the park.”
Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
A tremulous broken sound.
A slight trembling of the nerves.
Verb 4 meanings
To utter a succession of chirps.
(of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
Etymology
From Middle English twitren, twiteren, from Old English *twiterian, from Proto-West Germanic *twitwiʀōn, from Proto-Germanic *twitwizōną (“to chirp; twitter”). Cognate with Low German twitteren (“to twitter”), German zwitzern, zwitschern (“to twitter”).
TWITTER at a glance
TWITTER has 7 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (T 1 + W 4 + I 1 + T 1 + T 1 + E 1 + R 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,540 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with twitter
All rhymes- AFTER8
- BETTER8
- WATER8
- LATER5
- MATTER8
- CENTER8
- CHARACTER16
- DAUGHTER13
- MINISTER10
- COMPUTER14
- LETTER6
- SISTER6
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- TWISTER10
- TWITTED11
- TWINTER10
- TWITTEN10
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