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tricolons

tricolons is the plural of tricolon.

Meaning of tricolon

Noun (1)

tricolon (plural tricolons or tricola)

  1. (rhetoric) A sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length, usually independent clauses.
    • By my count, that’s three tricolons in just over 100 words. It’s almost impossible to make A.I. stop saying “It’s not X, it’s Y” — unless you tell it to write a story, in which case it’ll drop the format for a more literary “No X. No Y. Just Z.”2025 December 3, Sam Kriss, “Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025

Noun (2)

tricolon (plural tricolons)

  1. The symbol ⟨⁝⟩, a colon with three dots instead of two.

Questions about tricolons

What is tricolons the plural of?
Tricolons is the plural of tricolon.

Words near tricolons in the dictionary

  1. tricolettes
  2. tricolon
  3. tricolon crescens
  4. tricolon diminuens
  5. tricolonic
  6. tricolons
  7. tricolor
  8. tricolor shark
  9. tricolor sharkminnow
  10. tricolor sharkminnows
  11. tricolor sharks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tricolons (page history and authors); tricolon (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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