tripos

American  

[trahy-pos] / ˈtraɪ pɒs /

noun

• triposes
  plural

1. (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.

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tripos British  

/ ˈtraɪpɒs /

noun

1. the final honours degree examinations in all subjects at Cambridge University

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• triposes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tripos

1580–90; pseudo-Hellenization of Latin tripūs tripod

Example Sentences

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tripos triposes

In the mathematical tripos of 1794, was second wrangler, sickness alone preventing him from obtaining the highest honor of the year.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark

After the tripos excitements, some of the students leave their dream-world of study and talk of "cocoas" and debates and athletics to begin their work in the real world.

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Walter Paget

He wrote original articles for the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, on points in pure and in applied mathematics, and read mathematical books altogether outside the scope of the tripos.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

Though he did not compete in the mathematical tripos, he acquired a great reputation at the university.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

Sladder: I don't give a damn for classics; and I don't give a damn for Cambridge; and I don't know what a tripos is.

From Plays of Near & Far by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany

But most of the triposes have been divided into two parts, of which the second is not obligatory in order to obtain a degree.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

He was educated at the City of London school and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in the classical, mathematical and theological triposes, and became fellow of his college.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

At Cambridge the mathematical and classical triposes still retain their former prestige.

From John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors by Henry Fawcett

The boys were taught classics, not on the literary method, but on the academic method, as if they were all to enter for triposes and scholarships, and to end by becoming professors.

From From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson