Trio
['triːəʊ] or ['trio]
Definition
(noun.) a musical composition for three performers.
(noun.) three people considered as a unit.
(noun.) a set of three similar things considered as a unit.
(noun.) three performers or singers who perform together.
Checked by Helena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
(n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.
(n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.
Checker: Patrice
Definition
n. three united: (mus.) a composition for three performers.
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Examples
- Aunt Dodo was chief playmate and confidante of both children, and the trio turned the little house topsy-turvy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They were now a miserable trio, confined within doors by a series of rain and snow, with nothing to do and no variety to hope for. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Their mamma, however, signifying acquiescence in the project, they fetched their bonnets, and the trio set out. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In sailed her three daughters, a showy trio, being all three well-grown, and more or less handsome. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her fear was lest they should stay to tea, for she had no pleasure in making tea for that particular trio. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was now dusk, but the watchers at the gate saw the approaching trio and distinguished one as a prisoner ere they reached the portals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To this trio everybody in the court possessed of sixpence has an insatiate desire to exhibit hospitality in a liquid form. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If in our trio there was a superior and a leader, it was Diana. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This sound being taken up by the Minders, swelled into a rapturous trio which gave general satisfaction. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Enrico