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• Three Musketeers, The
  Three Musketeers, The

  noun

  a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
• The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers

  (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”

Three Musketeers, The

American  

noun

1. French Les Trois Mousquetaires.  a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.

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The Three Musketeers Cultural  

1. (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”

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Example Sentences

The saying "three is a crowd" seems not only to apply to "The Three Investigators" and the three musketeers.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

Burger King is already valued at more than twice the $3.3 billion the three musketeers bought it for in 2010.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 29, 2013

Colleagues dubbed Issigonis, with Moulton and John Morris, the chief engineer of SU carburettors, the "three musketeers" as they ceaselessly discussed the future evolution of automobiles at work and socially.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2012

He told the fashion website WWD that they and their brother Franklin were the "three musketeers".

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2010

I would say we were like the three musketeers, or the three amigos, but that's so played and has been said a million times.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds