Emily Dickinson Lexicon

triumph (-s), n. [OFr triumphe.] (webplay: coronation, heads, procession, victory, laurel, vanquish).

1. Among ancient Romans, a pompous ceremony performed in honor of a victorious general, originally crowned with laurel.
2. State of being victorious.
3. Victory, conquest.
4. Joy or exultation for success.

triumph (-ed), v. [OFr triumpher < L.]

1. To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice for victory.
2. To obtain victory.
3. To be prosperous; to flourish.

triumphant, adj. [Fr. < L.]

Celebrating victory, expressing joy for success; rejoicing as for victory; victorious; graced with conquest.

triumphant (-ly), adv. [Fr.]

1. In a triumphant manner, 'with insolent exultation' (J.).
2. In a triumphant manner.
3. Victoriously; with success.

trivial, adj. [L. trivialis.]

Insignificant; trifling.

troop (-s), n. [OFr trope.]

Collection of people; body of soldiers.

tropic, adj. [L. tropicus.]

Pertaining to the global areas of warm climate lying on either side of the equator; belonging to the Tropics; warm, sensual, exotic.

troth, n. [see truth, n.]

1. Belief, faith, trust, confidence, fidelity.
2. Promise to meet at a certain time and place; literally, a wedding.

Trotwood, proper n. [poss. < Trotter, messenger < Fr. trot; see also wood, n.]

David Copperfield; new given name that the boy protagonist receives when Aunt Betsy Trotwood adopts him in Charles Dicken's novel David Copperfield.

troubadour, n. [Fr.]

1. Bard; singer; one who plays a musical instrument; French medieval lyric poet who expresses courtly love; [fig.] songbird.
2. Harper; harpist; psalmist; song writer; one who composes and performs lyric poems; musician who plays a stringed instruments while singing.