TROPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trophy mean? 

• TROPHY (noun)
  The noun TROPHY has 2 senses:

1. an award for success in war or hunting

2. something given as a token of victory

  Familiarity information: TROPHY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An award for success in war or hunting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("trophy" is a kind of...):

accolade; award; honor; honour; laurels (a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Something given as a token of victory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

prize; trophy

Hypernyms ("trophy" is a kind of...):

accolade; award; honor; honour; laurels (a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trophy"):

apple of discord ((classical mythology) a golden apple thrown into a banquet of the gods by Eris (goddess of discord--who had not been invited); the apple had 'for the fairest' written on it and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite all claimed it; when Paris (prince of Troy) awarded it to Aphrodite it began a chain of events that led to the Trojan War)

booby prize (a prize given to one who finishes last in a contest)

bronze medal (a trophy made of bronze (or having the appearance of bronze) that is usually awarded for winning third place in a competition)

cup; loving cup (a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition)

gold medal (a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition)

silver; silver medal (a trophy made of silver (or having the appearance of silver) that is usually awarded for winning second place in a competition)

 Context examples 

It is to him that this trophy belongs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The corridors at Hurlstone have their walls largely decorated with trophies of old weapons.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over the fireplace was a magnificent trophy of weapons, one of which had been used on that tragic night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a hunting trophy in the hall, and from it I took a straight heavy knife which I sharpened upon my boot.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

May I live to see that flattened vicious skull in its own niche amid the trophies of the Albany.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her comprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed paper, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The Colonel possessed a varied collection of weapons brought from the different countries in which he had fought, and it is conjectured by the police that his club was among his trophies.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The knife with which the crime had been committed was a curved Indian dagger, plucked down from a trophy of Oriental arms which adorned one of the walls.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was after supper, in his own sanctum—the room of the pink radiance and the innumerable trophies—that Lord John Roxton had something to say to us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But amid these varied ornaments there were scattered the trophies which brought back strongly to my recollection the fact that Lord John Roxton was one of the great all-round sportsmen and athletes of his day.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)