n.
  - a great victory or achievement. ▸the state of being victorious or successful. ▸joy or satisfaction resulting from a success or victory. ▸a highly successful example: ![]()  the arrest was a triumph of international cooperation. 
- the processional entry of a victorious general into ancient Rome.
v.
  - achieve a triumph. ▸rejoice or exult at a triumph. 
- (of a Roman general) ride into ancient Rome after a victory.
Derivative
  
    - triumphal adj.
- triumphally adv.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. triumphe (n.), from L. triump(h)us, prob. from Gk thriambos ‘hymn to Bacchus’.