1 [C,U] ~ (over sb/sth) a great success, achievement or victory:
one of the greatest triumphs of modern science * It was a personal triumph over her old rival.
2 [U] the feeling of great satisfaction or joy that you get from a great success or victory:
a cry / glance / smile of triumph * The winning team returned home in triumph. * 'I've done it,' she thought with a sweet sense of triumph.
3 [sing.] a ~ (of sth) an excellent example of how successful sth can be:
Her arrest was a triumph of international cooperation.
verb [V] ~ (over sb/sth) to defeat sb/sth; to be successful:
As is usual in this kind of movie, good triumphs over evil in the end. * France triumphed 30 in the final.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for triumph is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is triumph a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, triumph is tagged as noun.
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