Associations to the word «Tristan»

TRISTAN, proper noun. A male given name.

TRISTAN, proper noun. A knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend

TRISTAN CHORD, noun. (music) 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, noun. Plural of Tristan chord

TRISTAN DA CUNHA, proper noun. A remote group of islands in the South Atlantic; a dependency of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena

TRISTAN, noun. (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.