brill

IPA: brˈɪɫ

A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
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.

(UK, slang) Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool. [Shining brightly.]

Examples of "brill" in Sentences

You think that's brill, wait until you see what else it can do.
Not so brill Down Under, mind you. on May 4, 2010 at 2: 24 pm matt
So brill, in fact, we missed our last train back to Helsinki and had no choice but to bus it.
I also bought some brill which is a lovely fish (similar to Dover sole) and really underrated.
# Arrowon 24 Mar 2009 at 10: 59 pm brill! thank god she was saved from the wretched fate of poetry. yay Ada, our very first cybergrrl.
Other dishes were very good: brill with a broth of onions, clams and borlotti beans; roast baby chicken with spicy potatoes; and a lovely, not too sweet white chocolate and hazelnut semifreddo served with cocoa sauce.
Yes, its messages about the “truth” of the period can be underwhelming, but then again most TV shows are less than brill in the insight department – and I include the much-vaunted Sopranos in that list, which had me shouting, “Oh puh-leeeze!” every time I watched it.