triumphant

triumphant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/

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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:

     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 Bulgarian: тържествуващ (bg) (tǎržestvuvašt) 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, győzedelmes (hu), győzelmes, győzelmi, győzelemittas 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

• 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

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Latin

Verb

triumphant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of triumphō