brill
/bɹɪl/
brill noun: a type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus. Also the clipping of brilliant.
Noun
brill (plural brills or brill)
- A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
Proper noun capitalized: Brill
Brill
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).
- A hamlet in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7229).
- A neighbourhood of Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Oak Grove, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
Also used as
brill is also the clipping of brilliant.
Forms of brill
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | brills |
| plural | brill |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more brill |
| superlative | most brill |
Origin of brill
Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”), from Proto-Brythonic *briθ.
* As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”). * As a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym of בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, such as "Ben Rabbi Yehuda Levi".
Words formed from brill
- Chinese brill
- New Zealand brill
- megabrill
- Brill Building
- Brill-Zinsser disease
Words that rhyme with brill
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- chill
- drill
- Seville
- will
- skill
- still
- frill
- mil
- sill
- swill
- fulfill
- goodwill
- till
- until
- brazil
- downhill
- prill
- quadrille
- shill
- shrill
- thrill
- Chapel Hill
- jill
- McGill
- nill
- squill
- trill
- uphill
- Walton-on-the-Hill
- Baskerville
- dill
- grille
- he'll
- instill
- Ithkuil
- krill
- manille
- nil
- phil
- purple pill
- refill
- remill
- rill
- thill
- twill
- vill
- vril
- 'til
Questions about brill
- What does brill mean?
- Brill means a type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
- What part of speech is brill?
- Brill can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce brill?
- Brill is pronounced /bɹɪl/.
- What is the plural of brill?
- The plural of brill is brills.
Words near brill in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: brill (page history and authors); Brill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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