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triweekly

triweekly adjective: occurring three times per week.

Adjective

triweekly (not comparable)

  1. Occurring three times per week.
  2. Occurring once every three weeks.
  3. Published three times a week.
    • And then it appeared to be forgotten, or, at least, men seldom spoke of it, and presently it came to be accepted as the popular belief that the robbery had been committed by a gang of desperate tramps, this theory being confirmed by a certain exploit subsequently in the San Juan country, an exploit...1911, Eugene Field, Second Book of Tales
    • This string of daily papers in Aurora, Joliet, Elgin, and Waukegan, the triweekly Naperville Sun, and 13 Sun suburban weeklies, has been winning major press-photography awards hand over fist in recent years.2001 June 29, Michael Miner, “We Are Teachers, Hear Us Roar/Remembering Those Who Dodged”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

triweekly (plural triweeklies)

  1. A publication published three times a week.

Forms of triweekly

pluraltriweeklies

Origin of triweekly

From tri- + weekly.

Questions about triweekly

What does triweekly mean?
Triweekly means occurring three times per week.
What part of speech is triweekly?
Triweekly can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near triweekly in the dictionary

  1. triviums
  2. trivoltine
  3. trivoltinism
  4. trivvy
  5. triweeklies
  6. triweekly
  7. Trix
  8. trixel
  9. trixels
  10. trixeny
  11. Trixie

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