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Definition of Trilogy

1. Noun. A set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme.

Definition of Trilogy

1. n. A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's " Henry VI." is an example.

Definition of Trilogy

1. Noun. A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games. ¹

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Definition of Trilogy

1. a group of three related literary works [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Trilogy

1. A triad of related entities. Origin: G. Trilogia, fr. Tri-+ logos, study, discourse Trilogy of Fallot, a set of congenital defects including pulmonic stenosis, atrial septal defect, and right ventricular hypertrophy. Synonym: Fallot's triad. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Trilogy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"The trilogy. is the fable-trilogy, in which the three plays are three successive ... The other is the theme-trilogy, in which the bond between the pieces is ..."

2. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh (1896)
"The trilogy and Tetralogy. According to the regulations of the Athenian theatre, every poet who competed at the City Dionysia had to exhibit three tragedies ..."

3. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"trilogy ; among the ancient Greeks, a union of three tragedies, connected in subject, which, together with a satirical piece, were performed in immediate ..."

4. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Edda Sæmunder, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"THE HELGI trilogy. THIS trilogy has reached us in a single vellum, R, ... R gives the trilogy in this order :— (A) The story of ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"trilogy; among the ancient Greeks, a union of three tragedies, connected in subject, which, together with a satirical piece, were performed in immediate ..."

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