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tricolon

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τρικωλον (trikōlon), neuter of τρικωλος (trikōlos, “having three parts”). By surface analysis, tri- + colon.

  1. learned borrowing from τρικωλον

Definitions

  1. A sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length, usually independent clauses.

  2. The symbol ⟨⁝⟩, a colon with three dots instead of two.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tricolon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA