Definitions for tridents

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tridents tri·dent

Spelling: [trahyd-nt]

IPA: /ˈtraɪd nt/

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

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in tridents (deinrstt).

Definitions for tridents

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 tridents

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

Examples for tridents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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