triple-crown

1. 1.

   of a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness races

   Similarsuccessful

   horse racing

2. 2.

   unofficial championship title for player who heads the league in batting average and home runs and runs batted in

   Similarsuccessful

   baseball

Questions about triple-crown

What does triple-crown mean?

triple-crown means "of a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness races". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in triple-crown?

triple-crown has 3 syllables: tri-ple--crown. The stress falls on "tri".

Is triple-crown a common word?

triple-crown 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.