(Greek mythology) a sea god

Usage examples of triton.

There in the Tempest is Neptune with his Tritons in his Chariot drawn with Sea-Horses, and Mairmaids singing.

Suspended there on the back of the sinking Triton, Tolland turned the stopcock, opening the valve.

Grampus gave Triton a glimpse of fifty enormous teeth, and with a swirl of rounded flippers turned away his thirty-foot black bulk, tagged with white on underparts, above each eye and on each flank.

Pot, past the lot where the Triton Extravaganza was folding its tents to begin its mainland tour, past the wharves where the Shuttle Boat was pulling in with its load of workers from the Hydroponics Gardens.

Here in the low-gravity environment of Triton, and with antiaging mechanisms wired centuries earlier into the human genome, life expectancy was around two centuries.

De Mille movie set, sweeping up from the cotton-rich bottomland to the spires and mansions on the great bluff, then back down again to the Triton plant and the sandbars where the river rolls on toward New Orleans and the Gulf.

The Triton Battery Company came to Natchez in 1936 to build batteries for Pullman rail cars.

An initial fund of some sixty-five hundred seconds should allow us to buy a channel of communication, if not with Triton or Nereid, then at least with the Neptunian Legate-mass stationed near Trailing Trojan city-swarm, where they keep a permanent embassy.

Piers jutted into the water, nixies and tritons darting in and out among the pilings.

There were two seafolk that Tagalong did not recognize: a triton and a nerien.

Triton was far from the light of Ahura Mazda, so six hundred years ago those who were brave crossed the great dark and settled here, under the Yellow Sun.

Lord Triton, I remember some of your earlier avatars much more clearly than you do.

Having been summoned from Triton, two peaceforcer patrol craft proceeding at speed arrived at the intended rendezvous coordinates five minutes after nothing was there.

The roaring of the sea was like the voice of those ancient Tritons whom poetic mythology endowed with life.

Now the bellowing, howling fountains that were Scylla and Charybdis came rolling up to Triton where he lay swimming in the deep, and reported to him that they had finished the job.