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tro⋅phy
[troh-fee] 
–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 tropaîos of turning or putting to flight, equiv. to trop(
) a turning (akin to trépein to turn) + -aios adj. suffix. See trope 
1505–15; earlier trophe < F trophée < L trop(h)aeum < Gk trópaion, n. use of neut. of trópaios, Attic var. of tropaîos of turning or putting to flight, equiv. to trop(
) a turning (akin to trépein to turn) + -aios adj. suffix. See trope Related forms:
tro⋅phy⋅less, adjective
-trophy
| a combining form used in the formation of nouns with the general senses “nourishment, feeding” (mycotrophy), “growth” (hypertrophy); also forming abstract nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -trophic. |
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| tro·phy (trō'fē) n. pl. tro·phies
[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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Trophy
Tro"phy\, n.; pl. Trophies. [F. troph['e]e (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo), L. tropaeum, trophaeum, Gr. ?, strictly, a monument of the enemy's defeat, fr.? a turn, especially, a turning about of the enemy, a putting to flight or routing him, fr. ? to turn. See Trope.]1. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people. Note: A trophy consisted originally of some of the armor, weapons, etc., of the defeated enemy fixed to the trunk of a tree or to a post erected on an elevated site, with an inscription, and a dedication to a divinity. The Romans often erected their trophies in the Capitol. 2. The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive. 3. Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc. 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. --Dryden. 4. Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace. Trophy money, a duty paid formerly in England, annually, by housekeepers, toward providing harness, drums, colors, and the like, for the militia.
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Language Translation for : trophy
Spanish:
trofeo,
German:
die Trophäe,
Japanese:
トロフィー
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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trophy
(from Greek tropaion, from trope, "rout"), in ancient Greece, memorial of victory set up on the field of battle at the spot where the enemy had been routed. It consisted of captured arms and standards hung upon a tree or stake in the semblance of a man and was inscribed with details of the battle along with a dedication to a god or gods. After a naval victory, the trophy, composed of whole ships or their beaks, was laid out on the nearest beach. To destroy a trophy was regarded as a sacrilege since, as an object dedicated to a god, it must be left to decay naturally. The Romans continued the custom but usually preferred to construct trophies in Rome, with columns or triumphal arches serving the purpose in imperial times. Outside Rome, there are remains of huge stone memorials, once crowned by stone trophies, built by Augustus in 7/6 BC at La Turbie (near Nice, Fr.) and by Trajan c. AD 109 at Adamclisi in eastern Romania.
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