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.

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

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

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

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

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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