(n.) A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a general who had gained a decisive victory over a foreign enemy.
(n.) Hence, any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.
(n.) A state of joy or exultation for success.
(n.) Success causing exultation; victory; conquest; as, the triumph of knowledge.
(n.) A trump card; also, an old game at cards.
(n.) To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
(n.) To obtain victory; to be successful; to prevail.
(n.) To be prosperous; to flourish.
(n.) To play a trump card.
(v. t.) To obtain a victory over; to prevail over; to conquer. Also, to cause to triumph.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(2) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(3) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(4) If this was his last match as Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal at least went out on a note of triumph.
(5) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(6) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(7) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(8) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.
(9) Shavit’s new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , has received plaudits from the cream of the liberal, American, political elite.
(10) The agency notes, too, that the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has form when it comes to announcing peace prize winners early, saying last year the EU had triumphed an hour before the official announcement.
(11) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(12) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
(13) Yet out-of-touch ministers have ploughed on regardless and claimed this is a 'triumph'.
(14) He would have seen the absurdity in a chancellor admitting that his sums are so badly out that Britain will borrow more than double this year than the £37bn he originally promised – and claiming that as a triumph.
(15) The Tribe triumphed in Critics' Week, while Love at First Fight won the top gong at the Directors' Fortnight.
(16) Wang Yongchen, who runs Green Earth Volunteers, one of China’s oldest environmental groups, cautioned that while the decision to scrap plans for dams on the Nu was a significant triumph, it was not necessarily a permanent one.
(17) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
(18) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(19) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
(20) Ofsted will be reviewing teacher training inspections in an effort to crack down on course providers that are not supporting new recruits, Wilshaw said, and in what is likely to be seen as an attack on teaching unions, he also criticised those who claim to represent teachers but focus more on the profession's problems than its triumphs.
Triumphal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.
(n.) A token of victory.
Example Sentences:
(1) But one thing that distinguishes today's establishment from earlier incarnations is its sense of triumphalism.
(2) That triumphal speech was his apex, the acme, the zenith of his career.
(3) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
(4) The misery of the left was, in the 1980s, matched by the triumphalism of the free marketeers, who had transformed Britain beyond many of their wildest ambitions, and began to balk at the restraints put on their dreams by the European project.
(5) Without a trace of triumphalism, Enders says that Bowdler has now "apologised for treating me like a lunatic".
(6) This Oscar list – and I think this award season – has a quiet triumphalism to it, an assertion of traditional mainstream Hollywood liberal values at a time when President Obama has been returned to office and the Republican right has retreated, although it is a very mainstream liberalism, and the hero of Spielberg's film is a Republican.
(7) The replaying of their triumphal re-entry into the street outside the Old Bailey triggers only partial recollection; Richard McIlkenny steady and philosophical, "Every dog has his day"; Billy Power, looking ahead, thinking of others – "Judith Ward, the Bridgewater Four."
(8) There is a rotunda decorated with Third Reich-esque golden statues; a monument to wartime partisans at a table on a plinth; and, of course, a Triumphal Arch, which the government listed as a “national treasure” as soon as it was constructed – all crammed into a space the size of one city square.
(9) Geller's answer is that the planned centre is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land".
(10) But the triumphalism was punctured by conflicting accounts of how Yusuf died.
(11) The air of triumphalism that the prosecution brought was not lost on any of us,” juror four wrote to the Oregonian newspaper, “nor was it warranted given their burden of proof.” Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League, one of America’s foremost authorities on rightwing extremism, said he could only imagine that courtroom dynamics along these lines had undone what had otherwise seemed like a very strong government case.
(12) Earlier in the day protesters had refused to leave Triumphal Square.
(13) Caesar Poblicks , an analyst at the London-based consultancy Conciliation Resources, said one of the greatest challenges facing Samba-Panza was a sense of triumphalism among the Anti-Balaka.
(14) But the Tory leader said that there would be "no hint of triumphalism" because the Conservatives had to show that they deserved the support of former Labour voters.
(15) Oronto Douglas, a senior adviser to the president, said: "This is no time for triumphalism.
(16) None of these players should significantly delay Williams on her path to the first calendar grand slam since Steffi Graf’s in 1988 – but there is no sense of triumphalism in the champion’s camp – far from it.
(17) There was a conscious lack of triumphalism about last week's Tory conference.
(18) It’s almost as though Toned Abs did it to distract attention from the drunken triumphalism of white Australia twerking in the face of the continent’s original peoples.
(19) With women, that leaking happens when others steal the images from their phones, and the response here is darker, sexual, triumphal.
(20) His actual return to Santiago in March was one of forced triumphalism by his supporters.