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Triumph

noun

A successful ending of a struggle or contest. Synonym: victory. "The general always gets credit for his army's victory" , "Clinched a victory" , "Convincing victory" , "The agreement was a triumph for common sense"

The exultation of victory.

verb

(past & past part. triumphed; pres. part. triumphing)

Prove superior. Synonym: prevail.

Be ecstatic with joy. Synonyms: rejoice, wallow.

Dwell on with satisfaction. Synonyms: crow, gloat.

To express great joy. Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, rejoice.

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"Triumph" Quotes from Famous Books

... spoken of her as "the girl;" it showed that Mrs. McKeon was losing, or had lost, whatever good opinion she might ever have had of Feemy: and when Louey ill-naturedly added, "Oh laws!—not he—the man never thought of her," Father John felt sure that there was a slight feeling of triumph among the female McKeons at the idea of Feemy's losing the lover of whom, perhaps, she ...

— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope

... of the occasion. The Secretary of the Navy, and other cabinet officers, lent their presence to the festivities. Capt. Hull of the victorious "Constitution" was present; and, to make the affair even more of a triumph, the captured colors of the "Alert" and the "Guerriere" were draped on the wall of the hall. Near midnight, the revelry was at its height. The brilliant toilets of the ladies; the men, gorgeous in the ...

— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 1 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot

... brought great joy to Dionysius, and no less hopes to the Sicilians, who were earnest in their prayers and good wishes that Plato might get the better of Philistus, and philosophy triumph over tyranny. Neither was he unbefriended by the women, who studied to oblige him; and he had with Dionysius that peculiar credit which no man else ever obtained, namely, liberty to come into his presence without being examined or searched. When he would have given him a considerable ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... is much to be admired; but the feat is technical and adds nothing to the significance of what Plato has to say on any concrete subject. This barren triumph was, however, fruitful in misunderstandings. The characters and values a thing possessed were now conceived to subsist apart from it, and might even have preceded it and caused its existence; a mechanism composed of values ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... not the spirit of the institution of Almack's. It was rather a bold thing in London to put FEASTING out of fashion, and to make a seven-shilling ball the thing to which all aspired to be admitted, and many without the least hope of succeeding. It was the triumph of aristocracy over mere wealth. It put down the Grimes's of former days, with their nectarines and peaches at Christmas, and in ...

— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

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