tro|phy

tro|phy
tro|phy «TROH fee», noun, adjective.
–n. plural -phies.
1. a spoil or prize of war or hunting, especially if kept or displayed as a memorial: »

The hunter kept the lion's skin and head as trophies.

2. any prize cup, or token, awarded to a victorious person or team: »

The champion kept his tennis trophy on the mantelpiece.

3. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a structure consisting of the captured arms, flags, or other spoils of a defeated enemy, hung on a tree or pillar on the field of battle or elsewhere as a memorial of victory.
4. any similar monument or memorial.
5. Figurative. anything serving as a remembrance; memento.
6. Architecture. a carved representation, as of a group of weapons.
–adj.
1. Informal. showy, like a prize; meant for display: »

"Five hundred dollar wines are trophy wines, meant to be shown off, not drunk." (New York Times); the elderly magnate and his trophy wife.

╂[< Middle French trophée, learned borrowing from Latin trophaeum, for tropaeum < Greek trópaion (things) of a defeat < trop a rout; (originally) a turning of the enemy < trépein to turn]

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