the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
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the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead
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three people considered as a unit
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Trinity \Trin"i*ty\, n. [OE. trinitee, F. trinit['e], L. trinitas, fr. trini three each. See {Trinal}.] 1. (Christian Theol.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
2. Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
3. Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
{Trinity House}, an institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like.
{Trinity Sunday}, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity.
{Trinity term}. (Law) See the Note under {Term}, n., 5.
Guns, drugs and money are now inextricably linked in an unholy trinity.
Only limited amounts of each are made, and both are rather expensive. The 5 and 10 are produced from the trinity of grapes responsible for the sparkling wines of the region: Parellada, Macabeo and Xarel-lo.
Like that version, the changes would retain "Father," "Son" and "Holy Spirit" in describing the trinity, the Christian view of one God's triune nature.
Women dressed in colorful saris gathered at countryside temples in the quake-ravaged areas of eastern Bihar state to pray and present their offerings to Lord Shiva, the god of destruction in the Hindu trinity.
'Stop for a fag and the time'll cost you 12 quid.' The Tay, Spey and Tweed are the holy trinity of salmon rivers, but the lesser meccas for the fisherman lie in England's West Country.
UK broadcasting in the 1990s was to be about competition, choice and quality, according to the government which put this trinity on the cover of a white paper published six years ago this month.
Brahma, foremost in the Hindu trinity of gods, is reverered as the creator of the universe.