trophy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A cup, statue, or other object given as a prize for winning a competition.

   She lifted the trophy above her head after the final whistle.

2. 2
   noun

   An object kept as proof of success, especially in hunting or war.

   The set of antlers on the wall was his prized trophy.

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Simplified etymology

Trophy entered English in the late Middle Ages and ultimately derives from Greek trepein, “to turn” or “put to flight.” In ancient Greece and Rome, a trophy was a display of weapons taken from a defeated army and erected as a memorial of victory.

From Middle French trophée, from Latin trophaeum (“a sign of victory, a monument”), tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”).

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