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tremulant

/ˈtɹɛmjʊlənt/

tremulant adjective: trembling, tremulous.

Adjective

tremulant (comparative more tremulant, superlative most tremulant)

  1. Trembling, tremulous.
    • The night air wrapped them warmly, and the balm of the little breezes that stirred the foliage around them was the smell of damask roses from the garden. . . . She stood by the bench, one hand resting on it; she stood all in the tremulant shadow.1899, Booth Tarkington, chapter 6, in The Gentleman From Indiana
    • Lightning exploded through the sky, followed quickly by a tremulant clap of thunder.2009, Faye Kellerman, The Quality of Mercy, →ISBN, page 436

Noun

tremulant (plural tremulants)

  1. A mechanical component of a musical organ, designed to add vibration to the sounds produced by the instrument.
    • The tremulant is a small apparatus that gives to the tone of any department of an organ to which it may be applied a waving or undulating effect.1855, Edward J. Hopkins, “XVI: The Tremulant”, in The Organ: Its History and Construction, page 70
    • The tremulant intentionally disturbs the stability of the wind in order to produce a desirable musical oscillation.2009, John R. Shanon, Understanding the Pipe Organ, →ISBN, page 22

tremulant meaning in Hindi

tremulant in Hindi

हिलता हुआ

Forms of tremulant

Adjective
comparativemore tremulant
superlativemost tremulant
Noun
pluraltremulants

Origin of tremulant

From Medieval Latin tremulāns (“trembling, shaking”), ultimately from Latin tremēre (“to tremble, shake”).

From Italian tremolante (“trembling, shaking”).

Questions about tremulant

What does tremulant mean?
Tremulant means trembling, tremulous.
What is tremulant in Hindi?
Tremulant in Hindi is हिलता हुआ. See Tremulant meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tremulant?
Tremulant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce tremulant?
Tremulant is pronounced /ˈtɹɛmjʊlənt/.

Words near tremulant in the dictionary

  1. Trempers
  2. tremping
  3. tremps
  4. trems
  5. tremulacin
  6. tremulant
  7. tremulants
  8. tremulate
  9. tremulated
  10. tremulates
  11. tremulating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tremulant (page history and authors); tremulant (Hindi Wiktionary) (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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