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triple crowns

triple crowns is the plural of triple crown.

Meaning of triple crown

Noun

triple crown (plural triple crowns)

  1. The three-tiered tiara formerly worn by Popes.
    • 1997: The last in this series of deaths was that of Pope Eugenius’s successor Anastasius IV, who was succeeded by a man of a very different calibre: Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, the only Englishman ever to wear the Triple Crown. — John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (Penguin 1998, p. 281)
  2. An award representing victory in three events, especially in horse-racing.

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Noun capitalized: Triple Crowns

Triple Crowns

  1. (plural) plural of Triple Crown

Questions about triple crowns

What is triple crowns the plural of?
Triple crowns is the plural of triple crown.
What part of speech is triple crowns?
Triple crowns is a noun.

Words near triple crowns in the dictionary

  1. triple combination engine
  2. triple combination engines
  3. triple contrabass viol
  4. triple contrabass viols
  5. triple crown
  6. triple crowns
  7. triple dog dare
  8. triple double
  9. triple doubles
  10. triple down
  11. triple E

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