Trophy

Definition: Trophy

Trophy

Noun

1. An award for success in war or hunting.

2. Something given as a token of victory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trophy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Trophy \Tro"phy\, noun; plural Trophies. [French troph['e]e (compare to Italian & Spanish trofeo), Latin tropaeum, trophaeum, Greek 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, turn.. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonym: Trophy

Celebration

Inauguration, installation, presentation; coronation; Lord Mayor's show; harvest-home, red-letter day; trophy &:c.; Te Deum; (thanksgiving); fete; holiday; Forefathers' Day.

Indication

Warning; omen; prefigurement. trace, record. warning; alarm. scepter. trophy. gauge. milestone, milepost. brand, fool's cap. check, telltale; test; (experiment); mileage ticket; milliary.

Record

Monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk, pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento; (memory); testimonial, medal; commemoration; (celebration).

Trophy

Noun: trophy; medal, prize, palm, award; laurel, laurels; bays, crown, chaplet, wreath, civic crown; insignia; feather in one's cap; (honor); decoration; garland, triumphal arch, Victoria Cross, Iron Cross.

Crosswords: Trophy

Stick this in your trophy case (The Longest Yard; writing credit: Albert S. Ruddy; Tracy Keenan Wynn)

What did you win that trophy for (Taxi; writing credit: Grahame Bond; Jim Burnett)

I'm not just some trophy wife (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

If you don't come home with that trophy, we lose it all (One Crazy Summer; writing credit: Savage Steve Holland)

No fun being locked up, especially in a bowling trophy. (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama; writing credit: Sergei Hasenecz)

Come on just a little trophy hanging on your arm so (Another Dumb Blond; performing artist: Hoku)

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Books

• Hunting Big Game in North America: Outdoor Life's Experts Reveal Their Secrets for Taking Trophy Antlered, Horned & Dangerous Game (reference)

• Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Harper Trophy Book) (reference)

• Blacktail Trophy Tactics (reference)

• Bowhunting Trophy Blacktail (reference)

• Hunt Alaska Now; Self-Guiding for Trophy Moose and Caribou: How to Plan Affordable, Successful Hunts You Do Yourself (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of The Texas Trophy Hunters (reference)

• Trophy Striped Bass (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bonanza:Last Trophy (reference)

• Bonanza:Desert Justice/Last Trophy (reference)

• Hunting Trophy Whitetail Deer (reference)

• Trophy Shots (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Young Trophy Band (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bushnell 20-50x50 Trophy Waterproof Spotting Scope with Tripod (reference)

• Trophy Hunter 2003 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Collier Trophy Presentation 1929. Credit: NASA.

Frosch Awarded Goddard Memorial Trophy. Credit: NASA.

Senior Master Sgt. Stephanie Harwell, Air Force Communications Agency, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., earned the National Security Agency's 1999 Frank B. Rowlett Trophy for individual achievement in Information Systems Security. (Courtesy photo).

View looking south from Building # 1, showing the trophy gun park in the foreground, with coal piles and the sheer crane beyond, circa 1866-69. Most of the guns visible are former Confederate pieces, many of which were still on exhibit at the Washington Navy Yard in the year 2001. The monitors Mahopac (center) and Saugus (right) are laid up in the Anacostia River, in the background, with their turrets still painted as they were in 1864-65. Courtesy of Robert A. Truax, 1978. Credit: NAVY.

Sailor W.R. Martin points out details of the Japanese trophy flags painted on the cruiser's pilothouse as a scoreboard of enemy ships claimed sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942. The six Japanese ships (two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and three destroyers) represented in this scoreboard greatly overstates the actual enemy losses, which were one heavy cruiser (Furutaka) and one destroyer (Fubuki) sunk and one heavy cruiser (Aoba) badly damaged. This overclaiming was typical of contemporary night surface actions. Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, soon after Boise arrived there for battle damage repairs in November 1942. Credit: NAVY.

Air trophy presented. Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, U.S. Army Air Corps, is presented with Collier Air Trophy by Pres. Roosevelt at the White House. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jerome D. Travers; with Havemeyer Cup, American Amateur Championship trophy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trophy Park, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

Post Y.M.C.A. and trophy circle, Fort Monroe, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.

National Cathedral interiors. Mr. Banta with trophy I. Credit: Library of Congress.

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If trophy there be, to England the trophy is due.

And perhaps at evening I see the hunters returning with a single brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their inn.

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Expressions using "trophy": challenge trophy ♦ trophy & ♦ trophy case ♦ Trophy Club ♦ Trophy money ♦ war trophy. Additional references.

Beginning with "trophy": trophy-filled, trophy-hung, trophy-hunting, trophy-laden, trophy-room, trophy-winners, trophy-winning.

Ending with "trophy": five-trophy.

Albanian

trofe, plaçkë lufte. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كأس (calyx, chalice, cup, drinking glass, epicalyx, glass, goblet, tumbler), ‏مدالية (key ring, medal), ‏نصب تذكاري (memorial, monument, pillar, stone), ‏غنيمة (booty, capture, haul, loot, plunder, prey, prize, spoil, swag, take), ‏تذكار الإنتصار, ‏تذكار (keepsake, memento, remembrance, souvenir, token), ‏إكليل (corona, crown, scallop, tiara). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трофей (prize, scalp), плячка (booty, fish, haul, kill, loot, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, quarry, ravin, spoil, spoils, swag). (various references)

Chinese 

錦標 (prize, title), 紀念獎 , 战利品 (loot, Trophies). (various references)

Czech

trofej (scalp), vítìzná cena, kořist (booty, haul, loot, plunder, prey, quarry, spoil). (various references)

Danish

praemie (premium). (various references)

Dutch

trofee. (various references)

Farsi 

یادگاری پیروزی , نشان ظفر, غناءم , جایزه (Award, Bonus, Premium, Prize, Testimonial). (various references)

Finnish

voittosaalis, voitonmerkki, sotasaalis (spoils of war, war booty). (various references)

French

trophée. (various references)

German

Trophäe (shield), Siegeszeichen. (various references)

Greek 

τρόπαιο. (various references)

Hebrew 

מזכרת נצחון, מזכרת (keepsake, memento, record, remembrance, souvenir), שלל (booty, gain, haul, loot, pillage, plunder, profit, spoil, take), פרס (award, premium, prize, reward). (various references)

Hungarian

trófea, hadizsákmány (booty, loot, prize). (various references)

Indonesian

piala (chalice, cup, goblet), beker (alarm clock, cup). (various references)

Italian

trofeo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

賞杯 (prize cup), 賞品　 (prize), 賞品 (prize), 賜杯 (Emperor's cup), 獲物　 (game, spoils), 獲物 (game, spoils), トロイヤ群 (toilette, tongs, ton-kilometer, Tonkin, Toronto, Trojan group, trolleybus, trombone, trompe-l'oeil, TRON, tropical, tropical drink, tropical fish, tropical fruits, tropical plant, trot, Trotskism, Trotskist, truck, tunnel, tunnel diode, twilight, you and I). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トロフィー , しょうひん (article of commerce, commodity, essay, goods, literary sketch, merchandise, prize, something very small, stock), しょうはい (issue, medal, prize cup, victory or defeat), えもの (game, specialized weapon or skill, spoils). (various references)

Manx

aundyr (award, prize). (various references)

Pig Latin

ophytray.(various references)

Portuguese

troféu. (various references)

Romanian

trofeu (capture, spoil), pradã de rãzboi, cupã (beaker, bowl, cup, goblet, heart, hearts, ladle, pot, tumbler), capturã (capture, catch). (various references)

Russian 

трофей (spoil), приз (capture, prize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trofej (salvage), znak pobede, ukras u obliku trofeja, plen (booty, kill, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin, spoil, spoils, swag). (various references)

Spanish

trofeo (spoil). (various references)

Swedish

trofe, trofé, pris (award, charge, cost, figure, plate, praise, praising, price, prize, tariff). (various references)

Turkish

zafer hatırası, hayvan başları ile süslemek, ganimet (booty, capture, godsend, loot, pillage, plunder, prize, spoil), av hayvanı başı. (various references)

Ukrainian

трофей (capture, prize), приз (prize). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật kỷ niệm chiến công, cúp. (various references)

tropaion. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trophy": trophying. (additional references)

Words ending with "trophy": atrophy, autotrophy, auxotrophy, chemoautotrophy, dystrophy, eutrophy, heterotrophy, hypertrophy, leukodystrophy, prototrophy. (additional references)

Words containing "trophy": astrophysical, astrophysically, astrophysicist, astrophysicists, astrophysics, atrophying, electrophysiologic, electrophysiological, electrophysiologically, electrophysiologies, electrophysiologist, electrophysiologists, electrophysiology, hypertrophying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trophy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arophy, strophy, tophy, trappy, trof, Trofim, trofy, troh, troph, trophee, trophic, tropho, trophys, tropy, trouph, Trphy, Trypho. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: thorp.

-2 letters: hypo, phot, port, ropy, ryot, thro, toph, tory, trop, troy, typo, tyro.

-3 letters: hop, hot, hoy, hyp, opt, ort, pht, poh, pot, pro, pry, rho, rot, tho, thy, top, tor, toy, try.

-4 letters: ho, oh, op, or, oy, to, yo.

+1 letter: atrophy.

+2 letters: eutrophy, orthoepy.

+3 letters: bryophyte, copyright, dystrophy, hypocrite, sophistry, trophying, typograph, xerophyte.

+4 letters: apothecary, atrophying, autography, autotrophy, auxotrophy, bryophytes, bryophytic, copyrights, dystrophic, hydropathy, hydrophyte, hygrophyte, hypertonia, hypertonic, hypocenter, hypocrites, hypsometer, macrophyte, neuropathy, pennyworth, periphyton, petroglyph, phenocryst, photometry, polyhistor, polyrhythm, prehistory, pyrethroid, pyrrhotite, saprophyte, sporophyte, thixotropy, tomography, topography, tryptophan, typographs, typography, upholstery, xerophytes, xerophytic.