Definitions for triumvir

triumvir tri·um·vir

Spelling: [trahy-uhm-ver]
IPA: /traɪˈʌm vər/

Triumvir is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in triumvir (iimrrtuv).

Definitions for triumvir

noun

  1. Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
  2. one of three persons associated in any office or position of authority.

Origin of triumvir

1570-80; Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men

Examples for triumvir

A triumvir is one of three men united in office; specifically in ancient Rome.

He could not remember the name of the third triumvir, and it troubled him greatly.

What a picture of the triumvir and rival of Brutus, as well as of the corrupted manners of Rome!

What we learn of the Centurion, the triumvir, and the Lictor, is very trifling.

The wife, indeed, had been nurse to a son of Marcus Lepidus, the triumvir.

Crassus, the famous financier, triumvir with Caesar and Pompey.

This is the same manner of consenting to a wish-fulfillment which the queen of the Parthians chose for the triumvir Crassus.

The triumvir Antony, accompanied by an actress, was publicly drawn by lions in a chariot.

Antonius the triumvir claimed that his family was descended from Anton, son of Heracles.

The triumvir's slender stipend of 32 a month he spent entirely on others.

Word Value for triumvir
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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