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Definition: Trilogy |
TrilogyNoun1. A set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trilogy" was first used: 1661. (references) |
Etymology: Trilogy \Tril"o*gy\, noun. [from Greek expression trilogi`a; prefix tri- (see Tri-) lo`gos speech, discourse: compare to the French expression trilogie.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Trilogy |
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Other famous trilogies include:
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trilogy |
| Specialty definitions using "trilogy": Cl- ♦ fnord ♦ Pied de la Lettre. (references) |
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Screenplays | Not a sequel, part of a trilogy, completely planned. (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trilogy (2003) Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy (2002) Bad Girl Trilogy (1998) The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy (1990) Trilogy (1984) | |
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Business | The production value of locally developed B2B EC software totaled USD 3.5 million in 1999 - a 265 percent increase from 1998. Top local developers include Trilogy Technologies, Data Systems Consulting, Proyoung Business Information system, Trade-Van Information Service, and Jade Pacific. (references) | |
Annual market growth for imported software is expected to reach 45-50 percent by the year 2002. Leading U.S. b2B EC software firms, such as IBM, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Broad Vision, Computer Associate, I2, Commerce One, HP, Compaq, JD Edwards, Ariba, Trilogy, Paragon, Manugistics, Exitricity, EXE, and Siebel, operate in Taiwan through agents or branch offices. (references) | ||
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| "Trilogy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.18% of the time. "Trilogy" is used about 122 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 99.18% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 122 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "trilogy": Trilogy of Fallot. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "trilogy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trilogji. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ثلاثية من ثلاثة مؤلفات, ثلاثية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | трилогия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trilogie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trilogie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | trilogio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گروه سه تاءی , سه نمایش تراژدی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trilogie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trilogie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριλογία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טרילו'י". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | trilógia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | triológ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trilogia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 三部作 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さ"ぶさく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | treeskeealag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilogytray trilogia. (various references) trilogie. (various references) трилогия (three decker). (various references) trilogija. (various references) trilogía. (various references) trilogi. (various references) üçlü trajedi, üç bölümlü roman. (various references) трилогія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | trilogia. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Trilogy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tiology, Treloggen, Tribonyx, triclopyr, triloge, Trilogic, Triology. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trilogy" (pronounced tri"lujē) |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, cosmology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, elegy, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, eulogy, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: gorily, trigly. | |
-2 letters: girly, glory, griot, lirot, roily, trigo, triol. | |
-3 letters: gilt, girl, giro, girt, gory, grit, grot, gyri, gyro, logy, lory, loti, oily, orgy, riot, roil, roti, rotl, ryot, tirl, tiro, toil, tori, tory, trig, trio, troy, tyro, yogi. | |
-4 letters: git, gor, got, goy, lit, log, lot, oil, ort, rig, rot, til, tog. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-o-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: tribology, trollying. | |
+3 letters: bryologist, gyrational, ignorantly, obligatory, outrightly, sportingly, toweringly, trichology, trigonally, trolleying. | |
+4 letters: bryologists, cryptologic, downrightly, fortnightly, gustatorily, hectoringly, hydrologist, lithography, originality, ornithology, potteringly, primatology, prodigality, proselyting, pteridology, religiosity, revoltingly, righteously, soteriology, terminology, totteringly, troglodytic. | |
+5 letters: astrobiology, bacteriology, comfortingly, cryptologies, cryptologist, derogatively, derogatorily, embryologist, forgeability, forthrightly, glycoprotein, granulocytic, gratuitously, hydrologists, liturgiology, lognormality, motorcycling, mythologizer, obligatorily, papyrologist, parasitology, polygraphist, profligately, storytelling. | |
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