triennial
adj/tɹaɪˈɛni.əl/
Etymology
From Latin triennium (“three-year period”), from tres (“three”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, tri- + -ennial.
Definitions
Happening every three years.
- triennial elections
- They were constantly summoned to a triennial festival : and the most approved songs delivered at this assembly were ordered to be preserved in the custody of the king's historian or antiquary
Lasting for three years.
- triennial parliaments; a triennial reign
- September 13 1621, James Howell. letter to Sir William Saint John Triennial Subsidies
A third anniversary.
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A plant that requires three years to complete its life-cycle.
The neighborhood
- synonymtrieterical
- neighbortriennium
- neighbortriennially
- neighborbiennial
- neighbortriannual
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for triennial. 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