Triumph vs Culmination - What's the difference?
triumph | culmination |
A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
(obsolete) Any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.
* Shakespeare
A state of joy or exultation at success.
* Milton
* Dryden
(obsolete) A trump card.
A card game, also called trump.
(historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
* Bible, Psalms xciv. 3
* Shakespeare
To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
* Macaulay
To be prosperous; to flourish.
* Trumbull
To play a trump in a card game.
(astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
As nouns the difference between triumph and culmination
is that triumph is triumph while culmination is (astronomy) the attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.triumph
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) triumphe , from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the triumph of knowledge
- Our daughter, / In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, / Sits here, like beauty's child.
- Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven.
- Hercules from Spain / Arrived in triumph , from Geryon slain.
- Scorsese's latest film is a triumph .
- This wedding cake is a triumph .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- How long shall the wicked triumph ?
- Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you / That triumph thus upon my misery!
- On this occasion, however, genius triumphed.
- where commerce triumphed on the favouring gales
- (Ben Jonson)