Troika

Definitions

1. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
2. A party or group of three, especially a ruling council of three people in Soviet or Russian contexts.

Equivalents

21 more languages

العربيةالزحّافة

Българскитройка

Bosanskitrojkaтројка

Catalàtroica

Češtinatrojka

Ελληνικάτρόικα

Suomikolmivaljakkoroikkatroikka

Hrvatskitrojkaтројка

Bahasa Indonesiatroika

Italianotroika

日本語トロイカ

한국어트로이카

Kurdîtroyka

Македонскитројка

Nederlandstrojka

Polskitrójka

Portuguêstroika

Русскийтро́йка

Српскиtrojkaтројка

Türkçetroyka

Українськатрі́йкатройка

Examples

“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.”

“No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty.”

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