TRIUMVIRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does triumvirate mean? 

• TRIUMVIRATE (noun)
  The noun TRIUMVIRATE has 1 sense:

1. a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority

  Familiarity information: TRIUMVIRATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIUMVIRATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

threesome; triad; trinity; trio (three people considered as a unit)

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

troika (a modern Russian triumvirate)