threesome
Syllables: three·some/ˈθɹiː.səm/US/ˈθɹi.səm/
threesome noun: a group of three people or things.
Noun
threesome (plural threesomes)
- A group of three people or things.
- An instance of sexual activity involving three people.
- Threesomes are huge right now. They're the blow job of the '90s.1998 July 26, Jenny Bicks, “Three's a Crowd”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Samantha
- ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7
- Synonyms:
- ménage à trois, three-way, troilism, 3P
threesome meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Persian
threesome in Bengali
- ত্রয়ী
threesome in Malayalam
- triumvirate, trio, triad
- മൂന്ന് ഒന്നായത്, മൂന്നെണ്ണം, മൂന്നെണ്ണം ചേർന്ന കൂട്ടം, മൂന്നു ഘടകങ്ങളുടെ ഒരു ഗണം, മൂവർ, മൂവർസംഘം
threesome in Persian
- a sexual activity involving three people
- سه نفری se nafari
Examples of threesome in a sentence
- Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex.2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 07 Jun...
- That’s a threesome joke about her fucking children!2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Charter Schools”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 22, John Oliver (actor), Warner...
Synonyms of threesome
Forms of threesome
| plural | threesomes |
|---|---|
| alternative Internet | 3some |
| alternative Internet | 3sum |
Origin of threesome
From three + -some.
Words formed from threesome
Words that rhyme with threesome
Questions about threesome
- What does threesome mean?
- Threesome means a group of three people or things.
- What is threesome in Bengali?
- Threesome in Bengali is ত্রয়ী. See Threesome meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use threesome in a sentence?
- Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex.
- What part of speech is threesome?
- Threesome is a noun.
- How do you pronounce threesome?
- Threesome is pronounced /ˈθɹiː.səm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of threesome?
- The plural of threesome is threesomes.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: threesome (page history and authors); threesome (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); threesome (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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