triumphant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having won a victory or success; exultant over it

   The triumphant team paraded the trophy through the streets.

From Old French triumphant, from Latin triumphantem, present participle of triumphare ('to celebrate a triumph'), from triumphus ('triumphal procession'), itself perhaps borrowed via Etruscan from Greek thriambos, a hymn to Dionysus.

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