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tres

tres noun: a three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine. Also the plural of tre.

Noun

tres (plural treses)

  1. A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.

Proper noun capitalized: Tres

Tres

  1. A male given name.
    • The man, Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, was charged with one count of attempting to commit a hate crime, which, because it involved an attempt to kill, is punishable by up to life in prison, and one count of illegally possessing a machine gun, which is punishable by up to 10 years, according...2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2021

Also used as

tres is also the plural of tre.

tres meaning in Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

tres in Telugu

ట్రెస్

tres in Malayalam

ട്രെസ്സ്, ട്രെസ്

tres in Kannada

ಟ್ರೆಸ್

Forms of tres

pluraltreses

Origin of tres

Borrowed from Spanish tres (“three”). Doublet of three and trey.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words formed from tres

Phrases with tres

Questions about tres

What does tres mean?
Tres means a three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.
What is tres in Telugu?
Tres in Telugu is ట్రెస్. See Tres meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is tres?
Tres can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tres?
The plural of tres is treses.

Words near tres in the dictionary

  1. trequartistas
  2. trequel
  3. trequels
  4. trequinsin
  5. Trerhyngyll
  6. tres
  7. Tres Cruces
  8. tres leches
  9. Tres Pinos
  10. Tres Rios
  11. tres-tine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tres (page history and authors); Tres (page history and authors); tres (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tres (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tres (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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