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tres

tres

8.2
The Spanish word for the number three used in names and phrases
  • numeral
  • /trɛs/
: tres
  • In Spanish, the number tres means three, like in 'tres amigos'.

Examples

  • The restaurant offers a special menu featuring tres different types of tacos.

  • You can select any tres items from the list for the promotion.

  • And we're going to talk about three of them today.

  • And yeah, that was nearly three years ago now.

  • We would watch two or three episodes in a sitting.

  • We will choose any three out of those five rotors.

  • So we're really lucky to have three very talented philosophers.

  • And this is going to be the three keys to crush precalculus.

  • When the pandemic kicked off, we saw three types of disinformation flowing.

  • So CDEFG those are the three notes of AC major triad.

Synonyms

three
vstres
∞ 1.0

The number that comes after two and before four

is the Spanish form sometimes used in English names or phrases
trine
vstres
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A group of three things

is used modernly in English names rather than as an archaic English term

Surface Forms

tres cardinal word
3 cardinal digit

Etymology

Tres is the Spanish word meaning 'three', so when it appears in names or phrases in English, like Los tres, it just tells you the number 'three'.