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What does "triumph" mean?

Triumph: 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. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A state of joy or exultation for success. Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven. Milton. Hercules from Spain Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain. Dryden.
  2. 3.Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.
  3. 4.A trump card; also, an old game at cards. [Obs.]
  4. 5.To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation. How long shall the wicked triumph Ps. xciv.
  5. 6.Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you That triumph thus upon my misery! Shak.
  6. 7.To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail. Triumphing over death, and chance, and thee, O Time. Milton. On this occasion, however, genius triumphed. Macaulay.
  7. 8.To be prosperous; to flourish. Where commerce triumphed on the favoring gales. Trumbull.
  8. 9.To play a trump card. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  9. 10.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. Massinger.

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