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I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.
William Gibson

Meaning of "triumphalist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRIUMPHALIST

triumphalist  [traɪˈʌmfəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRIUMPHALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Triumphalist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TRIUMPHALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of triumphalist in the English dictionary

The definition of triumphalist in the dictionary is relating to excessive celebration of the defeat of one's enemies or opponents.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRIUMPHALIST


analyst
ˈænəlɪst
capitalist
ˈkæpɪtəlɪst
catalyst
ˈkætəlɪst
finalist
ˈfaɪnəlɪst
fundamentalist
ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪst
generalist
ˈdʒɛnərəlɪst
journalist
ˈdʒɜːnəlɪst
mentalist
ˈmentəlɪst
minimalist
ˈmɪnɪməlɪst
nationalist
ˈnæʃənəlɪst
naturalist
ˈnætʃrəlɪst
nephalist
ˈnɛfəlɪst
novelist
ˈnɒvəlɪst
photojournalist
ˌfəʊtəʊˈdʒɜːnəlɪst
realist
ˈrɪəlɪst
serialist
ˈsɪərɪəlɪst
socialist
ˈsəʊʃəlɪst
specialist
ˈspɛʃəlɪst
stegophilist
steˈɡɒfəlɪst
vocalist
ˈvəʊkəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRIUMPHALIST

trituberculy
triturable
triturate
trituration
triturator
triumph
triumphal
triumphal arch
triumphalism
triumphant
triumphantly
triumpher
triumvir
triumviral
triumvirate
triumviri
triumviry
triune
Triunitarian
triunity

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRIUMPHALIST

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aerialist
animalist
anti-imperialist
brutalist
centralist
environmentalist
fatalist
Federalist
herbalist
hospitalist
loyalist
Orientalist
pastoralist
removalist
revivalist
semifinalist
sensationalist
structuralist
surrealist
survivalist

Synonyms and antonyms of triumphalist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «triumphalist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRIUMPHALIST

Find out the translation of triumphalist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of triumphalist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «triumphalist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

必胜
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

triunfalista
570 millions of speakers

English

triumphalist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विजयी स्वर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انتصارية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

триумфальной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

triunfalista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

triumphalist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

triomphaliste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Triumphalist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

triumphalistischer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

勝利者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

triumphalist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Triumphalist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trướng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெற்றிகர
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विजयोत्सव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Muzafferane
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trionfalistica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

triumfalistycznymi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тріумфальної
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

triumfalist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θριαμβολογούσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

triomfalistische
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

triumfer
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

triumphalist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of triumphalist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIUMPHALIST»

The term «triumphalist» is normally little used and occupies the 127.416 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIUMPHALIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about triumphalist

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QUOTES WITH «TRIUMPHALIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word triumphalist.
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William Gibson
I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRIUMPHALIST»

Discover the use of triumphalist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to triumphalist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the ...
I Triumphalist Despair On December 8, 1941, the morning after Japan's " unprovoked and dastardly attack" on Pearl Harbor, that "date which will live in infamy," President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress.
Tom Engelhardt, 2007
2
Reading the Latter Prophets: Toward a New Canonical Criticism
Traditional biblical studies follows what Norman K. Gottwald calls a 'triumphalist ideology' in which Israel is kept 'constantly at center stage' 1 8 and where Israel is 'persistently conceptualised as a religiopolitical unity continuous through time, ...
Edgar W. Conrad, 2004
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The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past
A comparison between the triumphalist and critical responses to the end of the Cold War helps to understand current political discourse. A triumphalist believes that the Cold War ended because "freedom, democracy, and free enterprise," with ...
Mark Gibney, 2008
4
Charting Transnational Democracy: Beyond Global Arrogance
A comparison of the triumphalist and critical responses to the end of the Cold War is helpful for understanding current political strategies. A triumphalist believes that the Cold War ended because, with the United States in the lead, “freedom, ...
Janie Leatherman, Julie A. Webber, 2005
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Globalisation in Africa. Reverese Robin Hoodism
What I mean by taming the triumphalist juggernaut is simply lessening the unnecessary effects of globalisation that we have discussed in previous chapters, making it (globalisation) work for every society, including developing countries; and ...
Daniel A. Offiong, 2013
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The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age
In Gottwald's view, Dever is a "triumphalist," while Lemche is an "anti-triumphalist ": "Dever, I would judge, stands in continuity with the mainstream of biblical interpretation accustomed to tracing a single teleological line of development from ...
John Joseph Collins, 2005
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Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The ...
Barth's parody turned the triumphalist myth into triumphalist comedy as he revealed an early Maryland of intolerant, double-dealing, self-interested, and sex -obsessed opportunists. Almost two decades later, in 1978, James Michener's novel ...
Julia A. King, 2012
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Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song
Desire. by. Gender. and. Genre. II. Ignoble. Desires. of. the. Triumphalist. Chanson. d'Ami. This chapter investigates the sorrows and, more particularly, the joys of low- style feminine desire as it appears in the chansons d'ami. Like the lust of ...
Helen Dell, 2008
9
To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the ...
(It is worth noting that this passage paraphrases Linco Inaugural Address in suggesting that "we can face the future with high hope," though Lincoln's own meaning was far from triumphalist.67) Most significantly, though, this editorial appeared ...
John Fousek, 2000
10
School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: ...
triumphalist period of the 1990s, this appeared to be the end of the story—or 'the end of history' in Fukuyama's (1993) felicitous phrase. As our combined ethnographic and historical work focuses on the longer cycles of change, it becomes ...
Aaron Benavot, Cecilia Braslavsky, Nhung Truong, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRIUMPHALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term triumphalist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Triumphalism over Myanmar raid
The first reaction, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diehard supporters, is triumphalist and holds that the retaliatory operation's “great” success against ... «The Echo of India, Jun 15»
2
Why govt should stop chest-thumping on Myanmar operation
If it falls short of enabling greater cooperation in the region for similar operations, it is mainly on account of the government's triumphalist publicity. Union Minister ... «Business Standard, Jun 15»
3
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey Lieberman review …
Yet it's difficult to share Lieberman's triumphalist certainties. No medical specialisation outside American psychiatry counts it a success to have vastly grown the ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
4
The queasy appeal of 'God's Not Dead'
But also partly because it flatters Christian viewers with the triumphalist message that we are the heroes, that our enemies are bankrupt and miserable, that we ... «Crux: Covering all things Catholic, Mar 15»
5
England v Scotland: Triumphalist hosts show the dangers of pre …
A triumphalist place, Twickenham. The lashings of faux patriotism here are such that one half-expects England players to make their grand entrance from the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
6
Home'Selma' Got It Right by Leaving Out Jews
Snow offers a well-tread recitation of a triumphalist version of black-Jewish ... is the excising of Jewish actors who don't fit neatly into this triumphalist narrative. «Jewish Daily Forward, Jan 15»
7
The Forgotten Triumphalist Glories of War, American-Style
So many years and wars later, it's easy to forget what a total television hit the first Gulf War of 1991 was. Just in case you no longer remember -- and why should ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
8
Monday Blog…Triumphalist Kerry actually pay Donegal a compliment
When English soccerballers Wimbledon beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final it was regarded as one of the major shocks in footballing history. Liverpool's ... «Gaelic Life, Sep 14»
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the spirit of free inquiry
And they also could not "accept Ms. Hirsi Ali's triumphalist narrative of western civilization, rooted in a core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western ... «New Jersey Jewish News, Jun 14»
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Beware the trumpeting of triumphalist Euroscepticism
Beware conflation, misleading extrapolation and false generalisation about triumphant populist Euroscepticism this weekend as results from the European ... «Irish Times, May 14»

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