Definitions for triennial

triennial tri·en·ni·al

Spelling: [trahy-en-ee-uh l]
IPA: /traɪˈɛn i əl/

Triennial is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 356 anagrams from letters in triennial (aeiilnnrt).

Definitions for triennial

noun

  1. a third anniversary.
  2. something that appears or occurs every three years.
  3. a period of three years; triennium.

adjective

  1. occurring every three years.
  2. lasting three years.

Origin of triennial

First recorded in 1555-65; trienni(um) + -al1

Examples for triennial

I confess then, that I have no sort of reliance upon either a triennial Parliament, or a place-bill.

For years, the triennial confab has been remarkable mostly for airy oratory by national leaders playing to the crowd back home.

We turn again to the triennial, and count the starred names.

I except orators, of course, because they are things of ages, and not of septennial or triennial re-unions.

Read his report made to the stockholders at their triennial meeting in 1822.

The former was in favor of septennial, the latter of triennial parliaments.

They did so, and found nothing hut a Harvard triennial Catalogue.

Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, and Cynthia Smith curated the triennial.

At this first triennial meeting it becomes an Electoral College.

The number of graduates, as appears from the triennial catalogue, is 3,191.

Word Value for triennial
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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