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Triumph   /trˈaɪəmf/   Listen
noun
Triumph  n.  
1.
(Rom. Antiq.) A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy. Note: The general was allowed to enter the city crowned with a wreath of laurel, bearing a scepter in one hand, and a branch of laurel in the other, riding in a circular chariot, of a peculiar form, drawn by four horses. He was preceded by the senate and magistrates, musicians, the spoils, the captives in fetters, etc., and followed by his army on foot in marching order. The procession advanced in this manner to the Capitoline Hill, where sacrifices were offered, and victorious commander entertained with a public feast.
2.
Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant. (Obs.) "Our daughter, In honor of whose birth these triumphs are, Sits here, like beauty's child."
3.
A state of joy or exultation for success. "Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven." "Hercules from Spain Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain."
4.
Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.
5.
A trump card; also, an old game at cards. (Obs.)


verb
Triumph  v. t.  To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph. (Obs.) "Two and thirty legions that awe All nations of the triumphed word."


Triumph  v. i.  (past & past part. triumphed; pres. part. triumphing)  
1.
To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation. "How long shall the wicked triumph?" "Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you That triumph thus upon my misery!"
2.
To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail. "Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time." "On this occasion, however, genius triumphed."
3.
To be prosperous; to flourish. "Where commerce triumphed on the favoring gales."
4.
To play a trump card. (Obs.)





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"Triumph" Quotes from Famous Books



... wish that you and Lucy could have been present last night and witnessed my scene of triumph. I was indeed most nobly welcomed. The scribe told me with sympathetic pride that the correspondent of the New York Herald had asked leave to attend, as he wished to telegraph my paper out to ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter
... foul, and to his dismay the leader of the freshmen felt himself falling. Browning fell with him, a cry of triumph coming to ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... Sevigne was virtuous—in that chief sense of feminine virtue—amid an almost universal empire of profligacy around her. Her social advantages were unsurpassed, and her social success was equal to her advantages. She had the woman courtier's supreme triumph in being once led out to dance by the king—her own junior by a dozen years—no vulgar king, remember, but the "great" Louis XIV. Her cynical cousin, himself a writer of power, who had been repulsed in dishonorable proffers of love by the young marchioness during the lifetime ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson
... said Count Robert; "were they to permit such treason to triumph, we might be pardoned for doubting ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... of Max toward Yolanda was a real triumph of skill and adroitness over inherited convictions and false education. She had brought him from condescension to deference solely by the magic of her art. Or am I wrong? Was it her artlessness? Perhaps it was her artful artlessness, since every girl-baby ...
— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major


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