TRINITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trinity mean? 

• TRINITY (noun)
  The noun TRINITY has 3 senses:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

2. the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead

3. three people considered as a unit

  Familiarity information: TRINITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRINITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

3; deuce-ace; III; leash; tercet; ternary; ternion; terzetto; three; threesome; tierce; trey; triad; trine; trinity; trio; triplet; troika

Hypernyms ("trinity" is a kind of...):

digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity

Hypernyms ("Trinity" is a kind of...):

Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker (terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God)

Meronyms (members of "Trinity"):

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Three people considered as a unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

threesome; triad; trinity; trio

Hypernyms ("trinity" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trinity"):

triumvirate (a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority)

 Context examples 

Here it is: Ask for Pompey from Jeremy Dixon, Trinity College.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We departed early in the morning, for we had a Salvage case coming on in the Admiralty Court, requiring a rather accurate knowledge of the whole science of navigation, in which (as we couldn't be expected to know much about those matters in the Commons) the judge had entreated two old Trinity Masters, for charity's sake, to come and help him out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

See this rose window, which is from the model of the Church of the Holy Trinity at Vendome, and this other of the 'Finding of the Grail,' which is for the apse of the Abbey church.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As we had expected, the telegram was soon followed by its sender, and the card of Mr. Cyril Overton, Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here's another thing I always carry. A souvenir of Oxford days. It was taken in Trinity Quad—the man on my left is now the Earl of Dorcaster.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)