| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tri·ad |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  tr   d , - d |
| NOUN: | 1. A group of three. 2. Music A chord of three tones, especially one built on a given root tone plus a major or minor third and a perfect fifth. 3. A section of a Pindaric ode consisting of the strophe, antistrophe, and epode. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin trias, triad-, from Greek, the number three. See trei- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | tri·adic (tr-d k) —ADJECTIVE
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