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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A native or inhabitant of ancient Troy.
- noun A person of courageous determination or energy.
- noun A celestial body that is in one of the two stable Lagrangian points of a two-body system, especially an asteroid with solar orbits at Jupiter's distance from the sun, but traveling 60° ahead of or behind the planet.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Latin Trōiānus, from Trōia, Troy, from Greek Troiā, Trōiā, from Trōs, the mythical founder of Troy.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the official convention of naming such objects after the heroes of the Trojan War, a practice derived from the fact that the first such object to be observed was named after Achilles and the second after Patroclus.]
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