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tro·phy

[troh-fee] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural -phies.

1.	anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., esp. when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.

2.	anything serving as a token or evidence of victory, valor, skill, etc.

3.	a carving, painting, or other representation of objects associated with or symbolic of victory or achievement.

4.	any memento or memorial.

5.	a memorial erected by certain ancient peoples, esp. the Greeks and Romans, in commemoration of a victory in war and consisting of arms or other spoils taken from the enemy and hung upon a tree, pillar, or the like.

[Origin: 1505–15; earlier trophe < F trophée < L trop(h)aeum < Gk trópaion, n. use of neut. of trópaios, Attic var. of tropaǐos of turning or putting to flight, equiv. to trop() a turning (akin to trépein to turn) + -aios adj. suffix. See trope

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—Related forms

tro·phy·less, adjective

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tro·phy (trō'fē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. tro·phies

1. A prize or memento, such as a cup or plaque, received as a symbol of victory, especially in sports.
2. A specimen or part, such as a lion's head, preserved as a token of a successful hunt.
3. A memento, as of one's personal achievements.
4. The spoils of war, dedicated in classical antiquity with an inscription to a deity and set up as a temporary monument on or near a battlefield, placed in an existing temple, or housed in a permanent, new structure.
Architecture An ornamental marble carving or bronze casting depicting a group of weapons or armor placed upon a square or circular base.

[French trophée, from Old French trophee, from Latin trophaeum, monument to victory, variant of tropaeum, from Greek tropaion, from neuter of tropaios, of defeat, from tropē, a turning, rout; see trep- in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
trophy

1513, "a spoil or prize of war," from M.Fr. trophée (15c.) from L. trophæum "a sign of victory, monument," originally tropæum, from Gk. tropaion "monument of an enemy's defeat," from neut. of adj. tropaios "of defeat," from trope "a rout," originally "a turning" (of the enemy); see trope. Figurative extension to any token or memorial of victory is first recorded 1569. Trophy wife first recorded 1984.

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trophy
noun
1.	an award for success in war or hunting
2.	something given as a token of victory

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Trophy Club, TX (town, FIPS 73710) Location: 33.00038 N, 97.19289 W
Population (1990): 3922 (1583 housing units)
Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 76262

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Trophy

Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour, Trover.] (Rhet.) (a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. (b) The word or expression so used.

In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. --Bancroft.

Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.

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