Definitions for trident

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trident tri·dent

Spelling: [trahyd-nt]

IPA: /ˈtraɪd nt/

Trident is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in trident (deinrtt).

Definitions for trident

noun

1. a three-pronged instrument or weapon.
2. Roman History. a three-pronged spear used by a retiarius in gladiatorial combats.
3. Classical Mythology. the three-pronged spear forming a characteristic attribute of the sea god Poseidon, or Neptune.
4. a fish spear having three prongs.
5. (initial capital letter) Military. a 34-foot (10-meter) submarine-launched U.S. ballistic missile with eight to ten warheads and a range of 6500 miles (10,459 km).

adjective

1. Also, tridental [trahy-den-tl] /traɪˈdɛn tl/ (Show IPA). having three prongs or tines.

Origin of trident

1580-90; Latin trident- (stem of tridēns) having three teeth. See tri-, dent²

Examples for trident

I struck her with this, my trident, on the left leg, if memory serves me.

The captain of the “trident” had caught the rope as Clelland sprang over the side.

They say, indeed, it is not built on the earth, but on a point of Shiva's trident.

Like the king, he was shooting an arrow, the head of which was in the form of a trident.

But Clegg was effective with his specific and repeated call to cut the budget for the trident nuclear-submarine program.

On the head is a short, broad, flattened horn, ending in a trident.

(c) Conventionalized lily—the prototype of the trident and the thunder-weapon.

To my mind it looketh as much like Neptune's trident as aught else.

In January 2008, Mullaney formed trident Financial Holdings & Acquisitions, LLC.

This was the sudden falling of the mainmast of the “trident.”