Triumvirate

Quick meaning: Triumvirate is a noun meaning Any group of three joint rulers.

Meaning

Any group of three joint rulers.

More Meanings

1. Any group of three people regarded as significant in some way; also (rare), a group of three things; a trio.
2. (Ancient Rome, government, historical) A council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.

Example Sentences

[H]e frets / That Lepidus of the Triumpherate, ſhould be depos'd, / And being that, vve detaine all his Reuenue.

VVhen Johnson [Ben Jonson], [William] Shakespeare, and thy ſelfe [John Fletcher] did ſit, / And ſvvay'd in the Triumvirate of vvit— […]

[…] I muſt not forget to ſet dovvne a pretie jeſt, vvhich hath been reported by many as touching Lepidus: It happened during the time of his Triumvirat, […]

[T]hat violent and lavvleſs Triumvirate vvithin him, under the falſifi'd names of his Reaſon, Honour, and Conſcience, the old circulating dance of his ſhifts and evaſions.

Word Forms

• triumvirates

Synonyms for triumvirate

Depending on context, synonyms include tern, ternary, ternion, threeness, threesome, triad.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include triarchy, triumviry, triumvir, triumvirship, triarch, quatrumvirate.

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