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triune

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈtraɪˌjuːn/
  • /ˌtraɪˈjuːn/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Both trine and one at the same time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: Christianity, lifestyle, religion

Examples

  • Christians believe in a triune God, meaning that he is three hypostases in perfect unity.
  • 1990, Mary Ann Fatula, The Triune God of Christian Faith, Liturgical Press (Michael Glazier Books), page 21, To be Christian today thus means reflective and critical fidelity to the essential elements of our Christian heritage in scripture and tradition, yet in a way that enables us to respond to the ever new presence of the triune God active in our own experience and world.
  • 2003, Jeffrey C. Pugh, Entertaining the Triune Mystery, Continuum International Publishing Group (Trinity Press International), page 80, Because the triune God is seen in ways that reflect relationality, God's presence can be expressed in the world in such a way that gnostic separation of the world and God should not be allowed to be a central part of Christian belief.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of an artistic or literary work composed of three parts united by a single theme.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

being three in one; used especially of the Christian Trinity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a triune God

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from New Latin triūnus.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: трыадзі́ны (tryadzíny) — both three and one at the same time
  • Bulgarian: триеди́нен (triedínen) — both three and one at the same time
  • Czech: trojjediný — both three and one at the same time
  • Dutch: drie-enig — both three and one at the same time
  • Finnish: kolmiyhteinen — both three and one at the same time
  • Finnish: kolminainen — both three and one at the same time
  • French: trin — both three and one at the same time
  • German: dreieinig — both three and one at the same time
  • Icelandic: þríeinn — both three and one at the same time
  • Italian: trino — both three and one at the same time
  • Latin: triūnus — both three and one at the same time
  • Macedonian: троеден (troeden) — both three and one at the same time
  • Macedonian: троичен (troičen) — both three and one at the same time
  • Polish: trójjedyny — both three and one at the same time
  • Portuguese: triúno — both three and one at the same time
  • Portuguese: trino — both three and one at the same time
  • Russian: триеди́ный (trijedínyj) — both three and one at the same time
  • Serbo-Croatian: тро̏један — both three and one at the same time
  • Serbo-Croatian: trȍjedan — both three and one at the same time
  • Spanish: triuno — both three and one at the same time
  • Swedish: treenig — both three and one at the same time
  • Ukrainian: триєди́ний (tryjedýnyj) — both three and one at the same time