triumphant

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin triumphans. Surface analysis is triumph +‎ -ant (“adjective ending”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/

Adjective

triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)

1. Celebrating victory.

   a triumphant chariot

   Triumphant out of this infernal pit.

   So shall it be in the church triumphant.

   Athena, war's triumphant maid...

Synonyms

• triumphal

Derived terms

• triumphantly

Related terms

• triumph

Translations

celebrating victory

• Asturian: trunfante (ast)
• Catalan: triomfant (ca), triomfador (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vítězoslavný (cs) m
• Dutch: triomfant (nl)
• Finnish: voitonriemuinen (fi)
• French: triomphal (fr)

• Galician: triunfador (gl), triunfante (gl)
• Hungarian: diadalmas (hu), diadalmaskodó (hu)
• Italian: trionfante (it)
• Occitan: triomfant (oc)
• Portuguese: triunfante (pt), triunfador (pt)
• Romanian: triumfător (ro) m, victorios (ro) m, triumfant (ro) m
• Spanish: triunfante (es), triunfador (es)

External links

• “triumphant” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• triumphant in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Latin

Verb

triumphant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of triumphō