trilogy

UK/ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/US/ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,903 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: trilogies

A trilogy is a set of three connected works. Finish the trilogy.

The three stand alone and gain from each other, which is what separates it from a serial. A trilogy that was planned as one is rarer than one that grew.

Definitions of trilogy

1nountrilogyA set of three connected works.B2+
“The trilogy took eleven years and the last book was the shortest.”

trilogy is a set.

Where it comes from

Greek trilogia named a set of three tragedies performed together.

Proto-Indo-European
*tréyes
Ancient Greek
τριλογία — trilogy
Latin
trilogia
English, today
trilogy

Latin trilogia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τριλογία (“trilogy”). Morphologically from tri- + -logy.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

trilogy in the wild

Although the work is often called a trilogy, Tolkien intended it to be a single volume in a two-volume set, along with The Silmarillion.
The Lord of the Rings
A trilogy is a set of three distinct works that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works.
Trilogy
In 1986 the trilogy won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The popularity of the word "fnord" and the 23 enigma can both be attributed to the trilogy.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy films directed by Peter Jackson.
The Lord of the Rings (film series)

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