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three musketeers

three musketeers is the alternative letter-case form of Three Musketeers.

Noun capitalized: Three Musketeers

the Three Musketeers pl (plural only)

  1. (idiomatic, plural, plural-only) A group of three people who are very closely associated; a trio.
    • Mona: A fire giant finger toast to the Three Musketeers!
      Charley and Lily: Only scarier!1999, Mona the Vampire, "Red Moon Monsters" (season 1, episode 6b)
    • We're the Three Musketeers of gardening!
  2. (plural, plural-only) plural of Three Musketeer

Forms of three musketeers

alternative formthree musketeers

Origin of three musketeers

Named after the 1844 historical adventure novel The Three Musketeers, originally published as French Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas.

Questions about three musketeers

What does three musketeers mean?
Three musketeers means a group of three people who are very closely associated; a trio.
What is three musketeers the alternative letter-case form of?
Three musketeers is the alternative letter-case form of Three Musketeers.
What part of speech is three musketeers?
Three musketeers is a noun.

Words near three musketeers in the dictionary

  1. Three Lions
  2. three Ls
  3. three marks of existence
  4. Three Mile Island
  5. Three Musketeer
  6. three musketeers
  7. three o'clock
  8. Three Oaks
  9. three of a kind
  10. three per cents
  11. three poisons

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