Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The typical genus of the family Triviidæ, containing a number of small species of various parts of the world, among those known as sea-beans. See sea-bean, 2. See also cut under Triviidæ.
- n. Plural of trivium.
Wiktionary
- n. insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information
- n. A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
- n. Plural form of trivium.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something of small importance
Etymologies
- From Latin trivia, plural form of trivium ("a place where three roads meet"). Compare trivial. (Wiktionary)
- Latin trivia, neuter pl. of trivium, crossroads, gutter (influenced by trivial); see trivium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Another piece of trivia is that Joe Abbey has never lost an election.”
“A piece of trivia is that Jimmy attended Rocky Mtn College in Billings, MT for about a semester when he was unknown.”
“Oh, and there are some useful (?) train trivia too.”
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“Conversion, Deep Prayer | Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M. If someone interested in trivia was to ask me to name the ten historical persons who have had the greatest impact on my life (aside, of course, from the Lord and his Mother), my list would include Saints Augustine,”
“In the ads, Ram drivers sparred in trivia competitions about the two shows.”
“Two further pieces of trivia from the BBC via Wikipedia: it is the first story since Genesis of the Daleks where the Tardis does not appear, and the only Who story where the villain is never named.”
“Well, if anyone should ever assert that my own interest in presidential trivia is in any way peculiar, I can point to ianrandalstrock's wonderful ranking of presidents ordered by how many states joined the Union during their terms of office (top spot goes to the otherwise obscure Benjamin Harrison, with six) and other superb lists including how many of them were outlived by one (Polk, Garfield, Harding) or both (Kennedy) of their own parents.”
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“So, now we know why this book of trivia is on the best seller's list.”
“My favourite personal piece of ‘Day’ trivia is that the first time I started playing the soundtrack CD, someone from the power company knocked on the door to say they were going to switch off the electricity in the street for an hour while they did some repairs.”
“With the help of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, personal trivia is getting less obscure all the time.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trivia’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
acolyte, archrival, backhander, backlash, baksheesh, bashing, boo, bribery, cadre, chicanery, clash, coercion and 256 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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brianbackman's Words
trivia, defenestrate, anachronism, factotum, apocryphal, pandemonium, august, abecedarian, sanguinary, palpable, logorrhea, ruminate and 5 more...
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Scarequotes's Words
scare quotes, celebritot, crwth, seattleite, splatterpunk, concupiscent, pinxit, question setter, gotham, quagga, typewriter, daddy-o and 16 more...
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trinity words
triumvir, tierce, sesterce, trinity, trammel, trephine, tercel, tercet, tertian, tricrotic, tritone, triad and 58 more...
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KaleidoscopeEyes's Words
necrosis, lovely, atrium, serendipity, plasticine, invaginate, genuflect, akimbo, denizen, falstaffian, deviate, nostalgic and 45 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for trivia.
fbharjo trivia which of three roads literally. hopefully the real camino real Dec 29, 2006