triumphal

Speech parts

1. triumphal - Noun

2. triumphal - Adjective

3. triumphal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.

A token of victory.

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Examples

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone. Alison Bechdel

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters. Jean Giraudoux

Under his [ Marc Chagall ] sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. André Breton

Then [after Castro dies and her triumphal return to Havana], at last, I could sing for my people. Gloria Estefan

There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose. F. Scott Fitzgerald

No matter how tough the current of a river may be it is the calabash that triumphal over the river. African Proverb

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