trident
a three-pronged instrument or weapon.
Roman History. a three-pronged spear used by a retiarius in gladiatorial combats.
Classical Mythology. the three-pronged spear forming a characteristic attribute of the sea god Poseidon, or Neptune.
a fish spear having three prongs.
Trident, Military. a 34-foot (10-meter) submarine-launched U.S. ballistic missile with eight to ten warheads and a range of 6,500 miles (10,459 km).
Also tri·den·tal [trahy-den-tl]. /traɪˈdɛn tl/. having three prongs or tines.
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How to use trident in a sentence
In January 2008, Mullaney formed trident Financial Holdings & Acquisitions, LLC.
But Clegg was effective with his specific and repeated call to cut the budget for the trident nuclear-submarine program.
This god of the sea, who is somewhat like the Roman Neptune, carried a lightning trident and caused earthquakes.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieHe is represented in art as bearing the trident, and surrounded by his attendants and the inhabitants of the sea.
'Round the Year in Myth and Song | Florence HolbrookIf he wishes a storm, he strikes upon the waves with his trident, and calls the winds, and the huge billows threaten the clouds.
'Round the Year in Myth and Song | Florence Holbrook
Neptune struck the ground with his trident, and there sprang forth a horse, strong and noble.
'Round the Year in Myth and Song | Florence HolbrookNeptune with his trident had just produced the horse, that animal so strong and so useful to man.
'Round the Year in Myth and Song | Florence Holbrook
British Dictionary definitions for trident (1 of 2)
/ (ˈtraɪdənt) /
a three-pronged spear, originally from the East
(in Greek and Roman mythology) the three-pronged spear that the sea god Poseidon (Neptune) is represented as carrying
a three-pronged instrument, weapon, or symbol
having three prongs
Origin of trident
1British Dictionary definitions for Trident (2 of 2)
/ (ˈtraɪdənt) /
a type of US submarine-launched ballistic missile with independently targetable warheads
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