tertiaries
Meaning of tertiaries
- the Tertiary period or the system of rocks deposited during it.
- a lay associate of certain Christian monastic organizations.
a Franciscan tertiary
mid 16th century (in tertiary (sense 2 of the noun)): from Latin tertiarius ‘of the third part or rank’, from tertius ‘third’.
Information about tertiaries
- It is a name.
- The singular form of tertiaries is: tertiary.
- Languages in which tertiaries is used:
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Hyphenation of tertiaries
ter-tiaries
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- tertiaries is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of tertiaries
Words that rhyme with tertiaries
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