Meanings
- not comparableHaving three prongs or similar parts; trifurcate.
A three-pronged attack to bridge the gap between current and budgeted performance envisaged £31m in revenue growth, £47m in cost reduction and £25m from redefining the InterCity route network [...].
2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 66Synonyms: tridental
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving three prongs or similar parts; trifurcate.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving three prongs
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Translations
Chinese Mandarin 三尖
- 三尖 (sānjiān)having three prongs
German dreizackig
- dreizackighaving three prongs
Hungarian háromágú, három részből álló
- háromágúhaving three prongs
- három részből állóhaving three prongs
Italian triforcuto
- triforcutohaving three prongs
Portuguese trifurcado
- trifurcadohaving three prongs
Spanish trifurcado
- trifurcadohaving three prongs
Turkish üç çatallı
- üç çatallıhaving three prongs
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three-pronged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/three-pronged
“three-pronged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/three-pronged. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “three-pronged,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/three-pronged.
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