triplet

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tri=plet

CIDE DICTIONARY

triplet, n. [From Triple.].

•  A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.  [1913 Webster]
•  Three verses rhyming together.  [1913 Webster]
•  A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.  [1913 Webster]
•  Three children or offspring born at one birth.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

triplet, n.
1 each of three children or animals born at one birth.
2 a set of three things, esp. of equal notes played in the time of two or of verses rhyming together.

Etymology

TRIPLE + -ET(1), after doublet

THESAURUS

triplet

Spenserian stanza, accidental, andante tempo, antistrophe, beat, book, breve, burden, canto, chorus, clover, compound time, couplet, crotchet, demisemiquaver, deuce-ace, distich, dominant, dominant note, double whole note, duple time, eighth note, enharmonic, enharmonic note, envoi, epode, flat, half note, hemidemisemiquaver, heptastich, hexastich, largo, leash, line, march tempo, measure, minim, mixed times, monostich, musical note, natural, note, octastich, octave, octet, ottava rima, patent note, pentastich, presto, quarter note, quatrain, quaver, rag, ragtime, refrain, report, responding note, rhyme royal, rubato, semibreve, semiquaver, septet, sestet, set of three, sextet, sextuple time, shamrock, shaped note, sharp, simple time, sixteenth note, sixty-fourth note, spiccato, staccato, stanza, stave, strain, strophe, sustained note, syllable, syncopation, syncope, tempo, tempo rubato, tercet, ternary, ternion, terza rima, terzetto, tetrastich, thirty-second note, three, three-quarter time, threesome, tierce, time, time pattern, timing, tone, trefoil, trey, triad, trialogue, triangle, tricorn, trident, triennium, trihedron, trilogy, trimester, trine, trinity, trinomial, trio, triphthong, triple crown, triple threat, triple time, triplopy, tripod, triptych, trireme, triseme, triskelion, tristich, trisul, triumvirate, triunity, trivet, troika, two-four time, verse, waltz time, whole note

ROGET THESAURUS

triplet

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.

Triality

N triality, trinity, triunity, 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, third power, cube, cube root, three, triform, trinal, trinomial, tertiary, ternary, triune, triarch, triadie, triple, tri-, tris-, tria juncta in uno.