trinity

plural trinities

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

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   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.

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   Together with Anu, the Father of the Gods, and Enki (the Semitic Ea), he [Enlil] made up the highest trinity of the ancient Sumerians.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 113

   Synonyms: threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate, leash, tern

2. The state of being three; independence of three things; things divided into three.

   Synonyms: threeness, threeness, triality

1. ChristianityIn 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.

   1836, Thomas Robbins, A Discourse on the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 17

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   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.

   1846, John Wilson, Scripture Proofs and Scriptural Illustrations of Unitarianism, page 149

   Synonyms: Holy 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. IrelandUKabbreviationellipsiseducationEllipsis of Trinity term.
9. abbreviationellipsisinformalCambridge UniversityEllipsis of Trinity College, Cambridge.
10. abbreviationellipsisinformalOxford UniversityEllipsis of Trinity College, Oxford.
11. The world's first nuclear explosion: a nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico.