triumphant
English
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin triumphans. Surface analysis is triumph + -ant (“adjective ending”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)
- Celebrating victory.
- a triumphant chariot
- So shall it be in the church triumphant.
- Athena, war's triumphant maid...
- 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman[1]:
- Strachan emerged triumphant from the battle of former Celtic managers at the venue where they both enjoyed some of the highest points of their coaching careers.
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Translations
celebrating victory
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Further reading
- triumphant in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “triumphant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) triumphant