triumphant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/

Adjective

triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• triumphal

Derived terms

• triumphantly

Related terms

• triumph

Translations

celebrating victory

• Arabic: مَنْصُور‎ (ar) (manṣūr)
• Asturian: trunfante
• Azerbaijani: müzəffər
• Catalan: triomfant (ca), triomfador
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂欢的, 庆功的

• Czech: vítězoslavný m
• Danish: triumferende
• Dutch: triomfant (nl)
• Finnish: voitonriemuinen
• French: triomphal (fr)
• Galician: triunfador, triunfante
• German: triumphierend (de)

• Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (hrōþeigs)
• Hungarian: diadalmas (hu), diadalmaskodó
• Italian: trionfante (it)
• Korean: 의기양양(意氣揚揚)하다 (uigiyang-yanghada), 득의만만(意氣揚揚)하다 (deuguimanmanhada)
• Latin: victor (la)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: triumferende

• Occitan: triomfant
• Persian: پیروز‎ (fa) (piruz)
• Portuguese: triunfante (pt), triunfador
• Romanian: triumfător (ro) m, victorios (ro) m, triumfant m
• Russian: победоно́сный (ru) (pobedonósnyj), торжеству́ющий (ru) (toržestvújuščij), лику́ющий (ru) (likújuščij)
• Spanish: triunfante, triunfador

Further reading

• Webster, Noah, “triumphant”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language‎^[2], 1828
• triumphant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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Latin

Verb

triumphant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of triumphō