[L., prop. neuter of *triennius adj. (sc. spatium), f. tri-, TRI- + ann-us year.] A space or period of three years.
1847. Bunsen, Church of Future, v. 119. The first theological examination follows upon the academical triennium.
1847. Liverpool Mercury, 18 June, 6/2. While they were speaking against time, time was running against them; and the triennium shrank to two years and a half.
1876. Bourne, Life Locke, I. ii. 52. He adopted the less usual course of shortening his triennium by two terms.
1894. Nation (N.Y.), 14 June, 444/1. Just home from his triennium in Germany.
