trinity
See also: Trinity
English
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French trinité (French: trinité), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin trīnitās, from trīni (“three each”), from trēs (“three”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
trinity (plural trinities)
- A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
- Template:RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt
- 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.
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- 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
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
- unitarian
- unity (“oneness”)