Trinity

//ˈtɹɪnɪti// name, noun, slang

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.

    "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."

  2. 2
    three people considered as a unit wordnet
  3. 3
    The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.
  4. 4
    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    In Christian belief, the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

    "He speaks distinctly of the Trinity of the godhead in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost."

  2. 2
    A female given name from English used since the 1970s, from the religious term trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
  3. 3
    A male given name.
  4. 4
    A small coastal town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  5. 5
    A town in Alabama.
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  1. 6
    A city in North Carolina.
  2. 7
    A city and town in Texas.
  3. 8
    Ellipsis of Trinity term. Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  4. 9
    Ellipsis of Trinity College, Cambridge. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
  5. 10
    Ellipsis of Trinity College, Oxford. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
  6. 11
    The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.

Synonyms

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threethreenessthreesomethreesometriadtrine

Example

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"The anti-rational, anti-justice and anti-humane Christian malignancy is rearing its head yet again as it leads the fight against homosexuality on behalf of the divine trinity of unreason, injustice and hate."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English trinite, from Anglo-Norman trinite and Old French ternite (modern French trinité), from Latin trīnitās, from trīnī (“three each”), from trēs (“three”). By surface analysis, trine + -ity. Displaced native Old English þrines (literally “threeness”).

Etymology 2

See trinity.

Related phrases

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