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triumphant

/tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/

triumphant adjective: having achieved victory; victorious, conquering.

Adjective

triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)

  1. Having achieved victory; victorious, conquering.
    • church triumphant
    • Strachan emerged triumphant from the battle of former Celtic managers at the venue where they both enjoyed some of the highest points of their coaching careers.2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman
  2. Rejoicing in victory or success; displaying triumph; exultant.
    • triumphant orchestral music
  3. (uncommon) Celebrating victory; triumphal.
  4. (obsolete) Splendid, magnificent.

triumphant meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

triumphant in Urdu

غالب

triumphant in Malayalam

വിജയശ്രീലാളിത, വിജയശ്രീലാളിതൻ

triumphant in Sanskrit

triumphant, victorious
उदयिन् udayin

Examples of triumphant in a sentence

  • They were not named in the triumphant communiqués and the fanfared Orders of the Day.
  • Some waved their fists in a final triumphant gesture, saluting rather than celebrating.
  • Some women thus emerge from squeeze boxes, triumphant, with mirrored abrasions over their cheekbones.

All 25 example sentences with triumphant

Forms of triumphant

comparativemore triumphant
superlativemost triumphant

Origin of triumphant

From Old French, from Latin triumphāns, present participle of triumphō (“to triumph; to exult, rejoice”). By surface analysis, triumph + -ant (adjectival suffix).

Words formed from triumphant

Questions about triumphant

What does triumphant mean?
Triumphant means having achieved victory; victorious, conquering.
What is triumphant in Urdu?
Triumphant in Urdu is غالب. See Triumphant meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is triumphant?
Triumphant is an adjective.
How do you pronounce triumphant?
Triumphant is pronounced /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/.

Words near triumphant in the dictionary

  1. triumphally
  2. triumphals
  3. triumphance
  4. triumphancies
  5. triumphancy
  6. triumphant
  7. triumphantly
  8. triumphator
  9. triumphators
  10. triumphed
  11. triumpher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: triumphant (page history and authors); triumphant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); triumphant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उदयिन् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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