trinity

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/ˈtɹɪnɪti/
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/ˈtɹɪnɪti/ · /ˈtɹɪ.nɪ.ti/

Definition of trinity

13 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
    “Near-synonyms: threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio”
    “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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noun

  1. A group or set of three people or things; three things combined into one.
    “Near-synonyms: threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate; see also Thesaurus:trio”
    “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. The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.

name

  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.”
    “From all eternity Jesus Christ existed, and Jesus Christ was with God the Father, the first person of the Trinity; and Jesus Christ was God the Son, the second person of the Trinity.”
  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. A male given name.
  4. A small coastal town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  5. A town in Alabama.
  6. A city in North Carolina.
  7. A city and town in Texas.
  8. (Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Trinity term.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal)Ellipsis of Trinity College, Cambridge.
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal)Ellipsis of Trinity College, Oxford.
  11. The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.

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Etymology

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”).

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