trinity
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See also: Trinity
English
Etymology
trine + -ity, from Middle English trinite, from Anglo-Norman trinite and Old French ternite (modern French trinité), from Latin trīnitās, from trīni (“three each”), from trēs (“three”). Displaced native Old English þrines (literally “threeness”)
Pronunciation
Noun
trinity (plural trinities)
- A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
- The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.
Synonyms
- (group of three): threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio
- (independence of three): threeness; see also Thesaurus:threeness
Derived terms
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Translations
group or set of three people or things
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See also
- binitarian
- binity (“twoness”)
- duality (“twoness”)
- quaternity (“fourness”)
- quinity (“fiveness”)
- Trinity
- Trinity College
- triunity
- unitarian
- unity (“oneness”)