Meaning

6 senses
  1. A grouping of three.

    Triade

    триа́даtriáda

    three people considered as a unit

  2. A grouping of three.

    A romantic or sexual relationship between three individuals; a throuple.

  3. A word of three syllables.

  4. A branch of a Chinese underground criminal society, mostly based in Hong Kong.

    Triade

    триа́даtriáda

  5. On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.

  6. A chord consisting of a root tone, the tone two degrees higher, and the tone four degrees higher in a given scale OR any chord with three notes.

    Dreiklang

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom has the dark triad of personality traits.

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  2. "Moscow Nights" begins with an E minor triad.

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  3. The latest Hong Kong summer blockbuster is not about kung fu fighters, triads or Canto-pop love interests.

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  4. He was also dogged by allegations that he had ties to Chinese criminal gangs known as triads, which he denied.

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  5. According to Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams, the "dark triad" of personality traits consists of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
grouping of three:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
grouping of three:
musical chord:

Forms

plural: triads
Singulartriad
Pluraltriads

regular

Synonyms

25 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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