tilde

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

til·de /ˈtɪldə/ noun [countable] SLAa mark (∼) placed over the letter ‘n’ in Spanish to show that it is pronounced /nj/ 〔西班牙语中置于字母n之上的〕腭化符号

Examples from the Corpus

tilde• But last week, the town council unanimously rejected her request to officially add the tilde.Origin tilde (1800-1900) Spanish Medieval Latin titulus “title”

til·de nounChineseSyllable

letter placed mark over Corpus ‘n’ (∼) a the

tilde
til‧de /ˈtɪldə/

noun [countable]

Date: 1800-1900
Language: Spanish
Origin: Medieval Latin titulus 'title'

a mark (∼) placed over the letter ‘n’ in Spanish to show that it is pronounced /nj/

tilde

BrE

/ˈtɪldə/

🔊

NAmE

/ˈtɪldə/

🔊

noun

the mark ( ˜ ) placed over letters in some languages and some vowels in the International Phonetic Alphabet to show how they should be pronounced, as in España, São Paulo and

penchant

/ˈpɒ̃ʃɒ̃/

腭化符号（~）（置于某些语言的字母和国际音标中某些元音符号之上，表示发音方法）

(

also ˌswung ˈdash

)

the mark ( ˜ ), used in this dictionary in some parts of an entry to represent the word in blue type at the top of the entry 波浪号，代字号（在本词典词条的某些地方用以代表首词）