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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A musical composition for three performers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("trio" is a kind of...):
composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Three people considered as a unit
Synonyms:
threesome; triad; trinity; trio
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("trio" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trio"):
triumvirate (a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A set of three similar things considered as a unit
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("trio" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trio"):
trilogy (a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme)
trigon; triplicity ((astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees)
Instance hyponyms:
Trimurti (the triad of divinities of later Hinduism)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Three performers or singers who perform together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("trio" is a kind of...):
musical group; musical organisation; musical organization (an organization of musicians who perform together)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Synonyms:
3; deuce-ace; III; leash; tercet; ternary; ternion; terzetto; three; threesome; tierce; trey; triad; trine; trinity; trio; triplet; troika
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("trio" is a kind of...):
digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)
Context examples:
The picture of the bewhiskered trio, as he had last seen them, mulcted of four dollars and ninety cents and a ferry ticket, made him chuckle.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Located just south of Mars' equator, Arsia Mons is the southernmost member of a trio of broad, gently sloping shield volcanoes collectively known as Tharsis Montes.
(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)
By ten o'clock, the chaise and four conveyed the trio from the abbey; and, after an agreeable drive of almost twenty miles, they entered Woodston, a large and populous village, in a situation not unpleasant.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The first hints that ring rain existed came from Voyager observations of seemingly unrelated phenomena: peculiar variations in Saturn’s electrically charged upper atmosphere (ionosphere), density variations in Saturn’s rings, and a trio of narrow dark bands encircling the planet at northern mid-latitudes.
(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)
On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctor’s with a small party; Lanyon had been there; and the face of the host had looked from one to the other as in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I slipped out of the room, unobserved by any eye—for the company were gathered in one mass about the trembling trio just returned—and I closed the door quietly behind me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When Dick returned, one after another of the trio took the pannikin and drank—one To luck, another with a Here's to old Flint, and Silver himself saying, in a kind of song, Here's to ourselves, and hold your luff, plenty of prizes and plenty of duff.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The two younger of the trio (fine girls of sixteen and seventeen) had grey beaver hats, then in fashion, shaded with ostrich plumes, and from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled; the elder lady was enveloped in a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
