Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of three men sharing public administration or civil authority in ancient Rome.
- noun One of three people sharing public administration or civil authority.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of three men united in office; specifically, in ancient Rome, a member of one of several groups of joint magistrates chosen for various purposes, as for establishing colonies, revising the lists of knights, guarding against fires by night, or to fill various extraordinary commissions on special occasions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) One of tree men united in public office or authority.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One member of a
triumvirate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Reportedly Phillips was sandbagged, gulled into believing that ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd was going to come into Oracle as some kind of triumvir alongside him and his fellow president
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Reportedly Phillips was sandbagged, gulled into believing that ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd was going to come into Oracle as some kind of triumvir alongside him and his fellow president
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Eveh tr’Anierh was what, in the language she had recently begun practicing to think in again after a brief hiatus, would have been called a triumvir.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Eveh tr’Anierh was what, in the language she had recently begun practicing to think in again after a brief hiatus, would have been called a triumvir.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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Eveh tr’Anierh was what, in the language she had recently begun practicing to think in again after a brief hiatus, would have been called a triumvir.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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a "triumvir," joined the senators in planning his ruin.
Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton
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In 27 BC, three years after the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian made a great show of renouncing the extraordinary dictatorial powers granted him as a triumvir, pledging to restore the Republic and declining the trappings of despotic kingship.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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This left the third triumvir, Lepidus, with responsibility for the province of Africa, and Octavian with jurisdiction over Italy and the unpopular task of repossessing land and redistributing it among the military troops who had been promised a reward for supporting the triumvirs against Brutus and Cassius.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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I leave it to you to decide how much of all this should be disseminated—Octavianus would make much of it, I fear, to the point of declaring war on his fellow triumvir.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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But first Agrippa spread out a big map on the large table that served as a culling area for the myriad papers a busy triumvir collected in the course of his duties: Italia from the Adriatic to the Tuscan Sea, Sicilia, and Africa Province.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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