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Etymology
[edit]From Middle French trophée, from Latin trophaeum (“a sign of victory, a monument”), tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]trophy (plural trophies)
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- An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.
- He won the trophy in a running competition.
- An object taken as a prize by a hunter, or a conqueror or belligerent, especially one that is displayed.
- Coordinate term: prize
- The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Around the posts hung helmets, darts, and spears, / And captive chariots, axes, shields, and bars, / And broken beaks of ships, the trophies of their wars.
- 2011 July 26, L. Samuelson, Tankograd: The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s-1950s, Springer, →ISBN, page 200:
- Similarly, the Soviet defence industry tested their guns by firing against German trophy tanks or fired against new Soviet vehicles with German guns or German ammunition.
- Any emblem of success; a status symbol.
- His trophies included his second wife, his successful children, the third and fourth homes in Palm Beach and Malibu, and his three yachts.
- (criminology, by extension) An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime.
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A tropæum.
- (art, architecture) A display of weaponry and other militaria, often captured from a defeated enemy, as an ornament designed for the purpose of triumphalist display by a victor or as a show of military prowess by a monarch.
- An artifact or artwork that has been stolen by a criminal and traded on the black market.
- An animal killed by a trophy hunter that usually has its parts sold on the black market.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]object rewarding success
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object taken by a hunter or conqueror of their success
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Verb
[edit]trophy (third-person singular simple present trophies, present participle trophying, simple past and past participle trophied)
- (transitive) To adorn (someone) with trophies.
- 1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book IV”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 35, lines 29–32:
- How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those vvarm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over vvhich Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round vvith golden hair.
- (intransitive) To win a trophy in a competition.
- 2021, “Harold C. 'Todd' Freeman, III”, in Star Tribune[5]:
- He trophied at the 1993, 1994, 2012 and 2015 National Championships and was most proud of winning his class at the 2017 Spring Nationals.
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