CHILL
What does "CHILL" mean?
An unpleasant feeling of coldness, or the act of making something cold.
Meanings
- A sensation of cold, especially a sudden one. A chill ran through the empty house at dusk.
- To make or become cold, especially to cool food or drink. Chill the wine before serving.
- To relax or calm down. After exams we just chilled at the beach all weekend. informal
- Easygoing, relaxed, unbothered. Don't worry, my boss is pretty chill about deadlines. informal
Did you know?
- The relaxed slang 'chill out' dates only to around 1980, emerging from American hip-hop culture - a sharp turn for a word that for a thousand years had meant nothing but cold.
Word origin
From Old English 'cele' or 'ciele' (cold, coldness), of Germanic origin and related to 'cold' and 'cool'; the slang sense 'relax' arose in late-20th-century American English.
Remember it
CHILL has a double-L like two icicles hanging at the end of the word.
A little poem
One word for the cold
and the cure for being cold-
we learned to relax.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my drink to relax. Now it's both chill and chilled.
What it teaches
The same word means freeze and relax; calm is just cold you chose on purpose.
Quick facts
What does CHILL mean?
An unpleasant feeling of coldness, or the act of making something cold.
Is CHILL a valid word?
Yes — CHILL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHILL?
CHILL has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHILL come from?
From Old English 'cele' or 'ciele' (cold, coldness), of Germanic origin and related to 'cold' and 'cool'; the slang sense 'relax' arose in late-20th-century American English.
What can CHILL teach us?
The same word means freeze and relax; calm is just cold you chose on purpose.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.