Other forms: triumphs, triumphed, triumphing
A triumph is a great glorious victory after a long struggle. A personal triumph, a triumph of engineering, in triumph.
The phrase a triumph of something over something is very common: a triumph of hope over experience, a triumph of style over substance. As a verb it means to win, taking over: they triumphed over every objection. Note triumphant, meaning victorious and showing it; triumphal, which describes the ceremony rather than the feeling — a triumphal arch; and that the two adjectives are often confused.
1nountriumphA great glorious victory after a long struggle.
“Winning the championship after years of defeats was a triumph for the small club.”
2verbwinTo win over opposition.
“In the end, good triumphs over evil, as it does in most fairy tales.”
triumph is a victory.
Latin triumphus was the ceremonial procession granted to a victorious Roman general, borrowed from a Greek word for a hymn to Dionysus. So the word for a great victory began as a religious song.
Ancient Greek
θρίαμβος — thriambus
Latin
triumphus — triumphal procession
Old French
triomphe
English, today
triumph
From Middle English -, borrowed from Old French triomphe, from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (“thriambus”). a doublet of thriambus and trump.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA