Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lasting three days, or happening every third day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Lasting three lays; also, happening every third day.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Lasting three days.
  • adjective Happening every third day.
  • noun An event lasting three days.

Etymologies

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From triduum ("space of three days").

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Examples

  • In the following night the storm terminated its triduan existence some time between darkness and dawn.

    The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890

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