tristan

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Definition of tristan in English Turkish dictionary

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tristan and isolde

Tristan ve İsolde

English - English

Definition of tristan in English English dictionary

A male given name

After the first son had been properly named after the grandfather, the second caught the the brunt of her few impulses, being named Tristan, gleaned from medieval lore from her years at Wellesley.

given name, male

{i} one of the Knights of the Round Table, knight of king of Cornwall and lover of the Irish princess Iseult

(Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other

Related Terms

Tristan chord

A chord in musical composition consisting originally of the notes F, B, D# and G# which can be translated more generally in intervalic terms as: augmented fourth, augmented sixth and augmented ninth above a root. Enharmonically it sounds like a half-diminished seventh chord (e.g. F-A♭-C♭-E♭), though in terms of musical analysis it can be interpreted in several ways

Tristan chords

plural form of Tristan chord

Tristan da Cunha

A remote group of islands in the South Atlantic; a dependency of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena

Tristan and Isolde

two characters in an old love story. Tristan falls in love with Isolde, who is the wife of his uncle, when they drink a magic love potion without realizing what they are drinking. Their story is told in an opera by Richard Wagner. Lovers in a medieval romance based on Celtic legend. The hero Tristan goes to Ireland to ask the hand of the princess Isolde for his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. On their return the two mistakenly drink a love potion prepared for the king and fall deeply in love. After many adventures, they make peace with Mark, who marries Isolde. The distraught Tristan goes to Brittany, where he marries another noble Isolde. When he is wounded by a poisoned arrow, he sends for the first Isolde. His jealous wife tells him his true love has refused to come; he dies just before she arrives, and she dies in his arms. The original poem has not survived, but it exists in many later versions and even became part of Arthurian legend. Gottfried von Strassburg's 13th-century version, considered the masterpiece of medieval German poetry, was the basis for Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (first performed in 1865)

Tristan da Cunha

a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, between South Africa and South America. The people living there had to be taken away when a volcano erupted in 1961, but they were able to return two years later

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich

born March 7, 1904, Halle, Ger. died June 4, 1942, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia German Nazi official. He resigned from the navy in 1931 to join the SS, becoming SS chief for Berlin (1934), head of the Reich Security Central Office (1939), and Heinrich Himmler's chief deputy. Noted for his ruthlessness against "enemies of the state," in the early years of World War II he organized mass executions in the German-occupied territories and became known as "the Hangman." In 1942 he chaired the Wannsee Conference. Appointed deputy administrator of Bohemia and Moravia, he was assassinated by Czech patriots; in retaliation the Gestapo demolished the village of Lidice and executed its male population of about 200

Hyphenation

Tris·tan

Turkish pronunciation

trîstän

Pronunciation

/ˈtrəˌstan/ /ˈtrɪˌstæn/

Etymology

() From the name of a knight, lover of Iseult in medieval romance, from Celtic Drystan derived from drest meaning "riot" or "tumult".