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Definition: Trireme |
TriremeNoun1. Ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trireme" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Etymology: Trireme \Tri"reme\, noun. [Latin expression triremis; tri- (see Tri-) remus an oar, akin to English row. See Row to propel with an oar.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ship | Quadrireme, trireme; stern-wheeler; wanigan, wangan, wharf boat. |
Triality | Three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce, spike-team, trefoil; triangle, trident, triennium, trigon, trinomial, trionym, triplopia, tripod, trireme, triseme, triskele, triskelion, trisula. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trireme |
| English words defined with "trireme": Thranite, Trierarch. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trireme": Thranite, Trierarch. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Trireme" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (trireme). |
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| "Trireme" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Trireme" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "trireme"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | triremë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ثلاثية المجاذيف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | трирема. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trirème. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trireme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριήρησ (galley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | háromevezõs görög gálya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iremetray trirreme. (various references) трирема. (various references) trirema. (various references) üst üste üç sıra kürekli kadırga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trireme": triremes. (additional references) | |
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"Trireme" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tireme, triene, triermain, triseme, tsiree. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "trireme" (pronounced 'Tri"reme'): Bireme. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: miterer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: metier, reemit, retime, retire, retrim, termer, trimer. | |
-2 letters: merer, merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, remet, remit, retem, retie, rimer, timer, trier. | |
-3 letters: emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mite, rete, rime, rite, teem, term, tier, time, tire, tree, trim. | |
-4 letters: eme, ere, err, ire, met, mir, ree, rei, rem, ret, rim, tee, tie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: merriest, miterers, remitter, rimester, trimeter, triremes. | |
+2 letters: interterm, memoriter, merriment, perimeter, permitter, pretermit, remitters, retrimmed, rimesters, streamier, tremblier, trimester, trimeters. | |
+3 letters: antimerger, determiner, ergometric, erythremia, freemartin, gravimeter, hermitries, marguerite, merriments, micrometer, perimeters, permethrin, permitters, pretermits, pretrimmed, radiometer, reimported, retirement, spirometer, temporizer, tetrameric, timeserver, timeworker, triggermen, trimesters, trumperies, urinometer, variometer. | |
+4 letters: barometries, calorimeter, centromeric, colorimeter, crematories, determiners, erythremias, eurythermic, ferrimagnet, fluorimeter, freemartins, gradiometer, gravimeters, hemerythrin, hypermetric, imperforate, intermitter, interregnum, irredentism, madreporite, marguerites, marqueterie, marquetries, micrometers, misinterred, misregister, misreported, overtrimmed, parametrize, permethrins, polarimeter, preterminal, pyrometries, radiometers, recriminate, recruitment, redetermine, reformative, refrainment, remarketing, remastering, requirement, retempering, retirements, semiretired, semitrailer, spirometers, streamliner, temerarious, temporaries, temporizers, termitaries, timeservers, timeworkers, urinometers, variometers, xerothermic. | |
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