Dictionary Entry
troll
troll is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
- 2transitive verb
To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
- 3transitive verb
To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
- 4transitive verb
To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
- 5transitive verb
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
- 6transitive verb
To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
- 7intransitive verb
To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
- 8intransitive verb
To move rapidly; to wag.
- 9intransitive verb
To take part in trolling a song.
- 10intransitive verb
To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
- 11noun
The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
- 12noun
A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
- 13noun
A trolley.
- 14noun
angling by drawing a baited line through the water
Synonyms
- 15noun
a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling
"he used a spinner as his troll"
- 16noun
a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
"they enjoyed singing rounds"
Synonyms
- 17noun
(Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
- 18verb
speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
- 19verb
praise or celebrate in song
"All tongues shall troll you"
- 20verb
sing loudly and without inhibition
- 21verb
angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
- 22verb
sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- 23verb
cause to move round and round
"The child trolled her hoop"
- 24verb
circulate, move around
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