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# trivia

«trivia» in Mova's school dictionary: **small, unimportant facts or details** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural; used with a singular verb)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Trivia are small, unimportant facts or details. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trivia/#m1)

2) (old use) Trivia was a name for the goddess Diana, because her statues stood where three roads met. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trivia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales the goddess is called Trivia, meaning 'of three ways'; in lessons trivia means small details that do not matter

### examples

- The quiz asked for trivia about the moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trivia/#x1)
- He knows a lot of trivia about dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trivia/#x2)
- Diana was called Trivia, the goddess of three roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trivia/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; trivia in a problem are small details that do not change the answer.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trivia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trivia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.