A male given name from the Celtic languages. / A knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend / A female given name

plural of Tristan chord

(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.

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

(literature) Of or pertaining to Sir Tristan, legendary Arthurian knight and tragic hero of the mediaeval romance Tristan and Iseult.

plural of Tristanian

An inhabitant of Tristan da Cunha.

(music) Resembling Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.