triennial

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/tɹaɪˈɛni.əl/

Definition of triennial

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)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”

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adj

(not-comparable)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”
(not-comparable)Lasting for three years.

“triennial parliaments; a triennial reign”
“September 13 1621, James Howell. letter to Sir William Saint John Triennial Subsidies”

noun

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Latin triennium (“three-year period”), from tres (“three”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, tri- + -ennial.

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