threesome

English

Etymology

From three +‎ -some.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈθɹiːsəm/

Noun

threesome (plural threesomes)

1. A group of three people.
2. An instance of sexual activity involving three people.
   • 2013, Joanna Biggs, "Tell me everything", London Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 7:

     ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.

Synonyms

• (group of three people): triad, trine, trinity, trio, troika, triumvirate
• (sexual activity): ménage à trois, troilism

Translations

a group of three people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三人一组 (cmn) (sānrén yīzǔ)

• Danish: trio (da) c
• Finnish: kolmikko (fi)
• Italian: trio (it) m
• Latgalian: trejūs m, trejuos f
• Latvian: trijatā (lv)

• Portuguese: trio (pt) m
• Russian: трое (ru) (tróje) n, тройка (ru) (trójka) f
• Serbo-Croatian: trojka (sh) f
• Slovene: trio (sl) m
• Spanish: trío (es)
• Swedish: trio (sv)

a sexual activity involving three people

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三人性交 (cmn) (sānrén xìngjiāo), (slang) 三P (cmn) (sān-P)

• Danish: trekant (da) c
• Finnish: troilismi (fi)
• French: plan à trois (fr) m, triolisme (fr) m, ménage à trois (fr)
• German: Dreier m
• Persian: سه نفری (se næfæri)

• Portuguese: ménage à trois (pt), ménage (pt)
• Russian: триолизм (ru) (triolízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian: seks utroje
• Slovene: trojček (sl) m
• Spanish: trío (es)
• Swedish: trekant (sv) c

Related terms

• twosome, foursome, fivesome, etc.
• moresome

Anagrams

• motherese