Troika
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Troika is a noun meaning A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
Meaning
A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
More Meanings
- A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.
Example Sentences
The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being.
Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas.
The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death.
When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.
Word Forms
- troikas
- troiki
Synonyms for troika
Depending on context, synonyms include threesome, triad, government, trine, ternary, tercet.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include leash, trine, threesome, tierce, triad, trinity.
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