Definition of Tridents

1. Noun. (plural of trident) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tridents

1. trident [n] - See also: trident

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tridents

tridecane
tridecanes
tridecanoic
tridecanoic acid
tridecaphobia
tridecatoic
tridecatylene
tridecennary
tridecyl
trident
trident hand
tridental
tridentate
tridented
tridentlike
tridents (current term)
tridermic
tridermoma
tridiagonal
tridiagonalization
tridiapason
tridigitate
tridihexethyl chloride
tridimensional
tridimensionally
triding
tridings
tridirectional
triduan
triduum

Literary usage of Tridents

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"15 and 17 there is another ring of tridents and a marginal one of circular perforations. ... 16 the 8 rays of the central star are continued as 8 tridents, ..."

2. A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and by Richard Phillips, James Gates Percival (1826)
"... arrows, tridents, &c. The Chinese have a singular method of plaj-ing shuttlecock. Se« Veral roung men stand in a circle, but they are not allowed, ..."

3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"In one of these is the Aum and the name of Mahadeva, which had no association originally with the tridents.— JB As. Soc. v. pp. 347 and 485. ..."

4. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1835)
"... également déjà bien des victimes : les uns sont percés par les tridents, les autres coupés par les haches, quelques-uns écrasés par les massues, ..."

5. Microcomputer Security by David J. Stang (1991)
"Consider the case of the fugitive who painted tridents. Fugitive Painted tridents One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives, accused of two 1983 murders, ..."

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