Definition of "trophy" []

• A prize or memento, such as a cup or plaque, received as a symbol of victory, especially in sports. (noun)
• A specimen or part, such as a lion's head, preserved as a token of a successful hunt. (noun)
• A memento, as of one's personal achievements. (noun)
• The spoils of war, dedicated in classical antiquity with an inscription to a deity and set up as a temporary monument on or near a battlefield, placed in an existing temple, or housed in a permanent, new structure. (noun)
• Architecture An ornamental marble carving or bronze casting depicting a group of weapons or armor placed upon a square or circular base. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Obviously, the term "trophy wife" meant something extremely different in the 1970s, when the film is set."
• "Ferguson is so driven by keeping the title trophy at Old Trafford that he has already calculated his route to Shangri La."
• "Even being in the same locker room where they toasted to the title trophy, there might not be a time this season that champagne-soaked championship celebration last June felt so distant."