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TRIUMPHANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experiencing triumph
Synonyms:
triumphant; victorious
Classified under:
Similar:
undefeated (victorious)
Derivation:
triumph (prove superior)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Example:
a triumphant shout
Synonyms:
exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal; triumphant
Classified under:
Similar:
elated (exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits)
Derivation:
triumph (to express great joy)
triumph (be ecstatic with joy)
Context examples:
Sir Lothian Hume had been looking impatiently at his watch, and now he shut it with a triumphant snap.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When the invader was triumphant he found but little, for whatever there was had been sheltered in the friendly soil.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Then he saw Bill, standing amid the dogs, half triumphant, half crestfallen, in one hand a stout club, in the other the tail and part of the body of a sun-cured salmon.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We shall expect you early to-morrow, and when you get that signal book through the little door on the Duke of York’s steps you can put a triumphant Finis to your record in England.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She reached home without seeing anything more of the offended party; and now that she had been triumphant throughout, had carried her point, and was secure of her walk, she began (as the flutter of her spirits subsided) to doubt whether she had been perfectly right.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was a very brilliant boy, and carried away every prize which the school had to offer, finished his exploits by winning a scholarship which sent him on to continue his triumphant career at Cambridge.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Elizabeth, with a triumphant sensation, looked towards his friend.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The triumphant flourish with which Mr. Micawber delivered himself of these words, had a powerful effect in alarming the mother; who cried out, in much agitation: Ury, Ury!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He snatched one of them up, opened it, and burst out into a triumphant chuckle of laughter.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He trembled at the audacity of his thought; but all his soul was singing, and reason, in a triumphant paean, assured him he was right.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
