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trices

trices is the plural of trice.

trices is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trice.

Meaning of trice

Noun (1)

trice (plural trices)

  1. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
    • Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.1586, William Warner, “The Fourth Booke. Chapter XXXIII.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC...

Noun (2)

trice (plural trices)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).

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Proper noun capitalized: Trices

Trices

  1. (plural) plural of Trice

Phrases with trices

Questions about trices

What is trices the plural of?
Trices is the plural of trice.
What part of speech is trices?
Trices is a proper noun.

Words near trices in the dictionary

  1. triceratopslike
  2. triceria
  3. tricerion
  4. tricerions
  5. tricerium
  6. trices
  7. trices up
  8. tricesimation
  9. tricesimo-secundo
  10. tricesimo-secundos
  11. trich

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trices (page history and authors); Trices (page history and authors); trice (page history and authors). 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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