triumphant

From Old French, from Latin triumphans. By surface analysis, triumph +‎ -ant (“adjective ending”).

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈʌmfənt/

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triumphant (comparative more triumphant, superlative most triumphant)

1. Celebrating victory.

   a triumphant chariot

   So shall it be in the church triumphant.

   Athena, war's triumphant maid...

   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎:

     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.

• triumphal

• triumphantly

• triumph

• triumphant in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “triumphant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

triumphant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of triumphō