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

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

In 1854 he took his degree as fourth junior optime, and fourth in the first class of the classical tripos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in the classical tripos in 1851.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

In the learned doublets tripod and tripos we have the Greek form.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

But the law tripos and the law schools suffer from remoteness from the law courts, and from the exclusively academical character of the teaching.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various

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

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

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