trey
/tɹeɪ/
trey noun: a playing card or die with the rank of three.
Noun
trey (plural treys)
- A playing card or die with the rank of three.
- Before you begin the Game at Picket, you must throw out of the Pack the Deuces, Treys, Fours and Fives, and play with the rest of the Cards, which are in number thirty and six.1674, Charles Cotton, chapter 6, in The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, page 81
- He had been a pretty good guy, straight as ace-deuce-trey-four-five, till he got on the force.1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 11, in Red Harvest
- A score of three in cards, dice, or dominoes.
- A three-pointer.
- A three penny coin; a thrippence.
- The third bearer of the same personal name in a family, often denoted by suffixed Roman numeral III.
- The third branch of a deer's antler.
Proper noun capitalized: Trey
Trey
- A nickname for someone who is the third person in the family sharing his father's name.
- A male given name from English of modern usage, derived from the nickname.
trey meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
trey in Hindi
- ट्रेई
trey in Tamil
- ட்ரெய், டிரெய்
trey in Marathi
- ट्रेई
trey in Bengali
- ট্রেই
More languagesFewer languages
- trey in Malayalam
- ട്രെയ്
- trey in Kannada
- ಟ್ರೆಯ್
- trey in Punjabi
- ਟ੍ਰੇਈ
- trey in Gujarati
- ટ્રેઈ
- trey in Odia
- ଟ୍ରେଇ
- trey in Nepali
- ट्रेई, ट्रेइ
Examples of trey in a sentence
- And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.1948 January 1, “Deck of Cards” (track 20), in Famous Country Music Makers, performed by Tex Ritter:
- Davidson had caught a trey which did not seem to improve his hand, yet he threw three dollars into the pot.1982, Stephen King, The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands:
Forms of trey
| plural | treys |
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Origin of trey
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English trey, from Anglo-Norman trei or treis, from Old French treis (“three”). Doublet of three and tres.
Words that rhyme with trey
Questions about trey
- What does trey mean?
- Trey means a playing card or die with the rank of three.
- What is trey in Hindi?
- Trey in Hindi is ट्रेई. See Trey meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use trey in a sentence?
- And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- What part of speech is trey?
- Trey can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce trey?
- Trey is pronounced /tɹeɪ/.
- What is the plural of trey?
- The plural of trey is treys.
Words near trey in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: trey (page history and authors); Trey (page history and authors); trey (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trey (Nepali, 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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