What does "triumphant" mean?

Triumphant: Celebrating victory; expressive of joy for success; as, a triumphant song or ode.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Graced with conquest; victorious. Athena, war's triumphant maid. Pope. So shall it be in the church triumphant. Perkins.
  2. 3.Of or pertaining to triumph; triumphal. [Obs.] Captives bound to a triumphant car. Shak. Church triumphant, the church in heaven, enjoying a state of triumph, her warfare with evil being over; -- distinguished from church militant. See under Militant.

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