triennial

Other forms of triennial

plural

triennials·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about triennial

What does triennial mean?

triennial means "the 300th anniversary (or the celebration of it)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in triennial?

triennial has 4 syllables: tri-en-ni-al. The stress falls on "en". In IPA it is /tɹaɪˈɛniəl/.

What is another word for triennial?

Close synonyms include tercentennial, tercentenary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is triennial a common word?

triennial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with triennial?

2 words rhyme with triennial. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.