Definitions for Triton

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Triton tri·ton

Spelling: [trahy-ton]

IPA: /ˈtraɪ tɒn/

Triton is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in Triton (inortt).

Definitions for Triton

noun

1. a positively-charged particle consisting of a proton and two neutrons, equivalent to the nucleus of an atom of tritium.
2. Classical Mythology. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet.
3. Astronomy. a moon of Neptune.
4. (lowercase) any of various marine gastropods of the family Cymatiidae, having a large, spiral, often beautifully colored shell.
5. (lowercase) the shell of a triton.

Origin of Triton

1930-35; Greek tríton, neuter of trítos third, equivalent to trí- tri- + -ton neuter adj. suffix; cf. Examples for Triton

triton will begin patrolling the seas with six ships based in Lampedusa and Porto Empedocle in Sicily on November 1.

Then the triton grew enraged, leaped up and struck at Notscha with his ax.

The armlet struck the triton on the head and he sank down dead.

Art a maid of the waters, One of shell-winding triton's bright-hair'd daughters?

Admiral triton insisted on accompanying his friends to Portsmouth.

triton prices the 1000/3 LP at a cool $3.15 million—inclusive of pilot training.

I should say it is a Union liner, sir—either the triton or Neptune.

But he did not drown, for a triton came his way who took him along with him to the dragon-castle.

If the crystalline lens of a triton be removed, it is regenerated by the iris.

And a watchman also came and reported that the triton had been slain by a boy.