noun
Meaning 1
A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
troika
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/
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CMU ARPABET: T R OY1 K AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: carriage, equipage, rig
noun
Meaning 4
a modern Russian triumvirate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: triumvirate
noun
Meaning 5
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: digit, figure
History
Etymology
From Russian тро́йка (trójka, “a group of three”).
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: тро́йка (trójka) — carriage
- Bulgarian: тро́йка (trójka) — carriage
- Catalan: troica — carriage
- Chinese Mandarin: 三套車 /三套车 (sāntàochē) — carriage
- Chinese Mandarin: 三套馬車 /三套马车 (sāntàomǎchē) — carriage
- Czech: trojka — carriage
- Dutch: trojka — carriage
- Finnish: troikka — carriage
- Finnish: kolmivaljakko — carriage
- French: troïka — carriage
- German: Troika — carriage
- Greek: τρόικα (tróika) — carriage
- Hungarian: trojka — carriage
- Ido: troika — carriage
- Indonesian: troika — carriage
- Japanese: トロイカ (toroika) — carriage
- Korean: 트로이카 (teuroika) — carriage
- Northern Kurdish: troyka — carriage
- Macedonian: тро́јка (trójka) — carriage
- Polish: trojka — carriage
- Polish: trójka — carriage
- Portuguese: troika — carriage
- Russian: тро́йка (trójka) — carriage
- Serbo-Croatian: тро́јка — carriage
- Serbo-Croatian: trójka — carriage
- Slovak: trojka — carriage
- Slovene: trojka — carriage
- Spanish: troica — carriage
- Swedish: trojka — carriage
- Tibetan: རྟ་གསུམ་རྟ་ཤིང (rta gsum rta shing) — carriage
- Turkish: troyka — carriage
- Ukrainian: трі́йка (tríjka) — carriage