troika
/ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A great writer of the last epoch, comparing Russia to a swift troika galloping to an unknown goal, exclaims 'Oh, troika, birdlike troika, who invented thee!' and adds, in proud ecstasy, that all the peoples of the world stand aside respectfully to make way for the recklessly galloping troika to pass."
- "When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth."
- "Travelling part of the way by rail and the remainder by troika, he reached Orenburg shortly before Christmas."
- "The investigator suspected the poor dead bastards were just a vodka troika that had cheerily frozen to death."
- "The bare troika of Boolean operators brought them into metaphorical being."
- "“He said, 'Let me get the best people.' And that's what he did. He got John Kalodner and Gary Gersh and Tom Zutaut, and they became stars in their own right.” Over the ensuing decade, that troika of talent-finders would bring a host of multiplatinum artists—from Cher and Aerosmith to Guns N' Roses and Nirvana—to Geffen."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: тро́йка
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/
- British English: /ˈtɹɔɪ.kə/