trophy
Multiple Entries:trophy -trophic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trophy/ˈtrəʊfi/
▶noun (pl. trophies)
- 1 a cup or other decorative object awarded as a prize for a victory or success.
■ a souvenir of an achievement, especially a head of an animal taken when hunting.
- 2 (in ancient Greece or Rome) the weapons of a defeated army set up as a memorial of victory.
– origin C15: from Fr. trophée, via L. from Gk tropaion, from tropē ‘a rout’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-trophic/ˈtrəʊfɪk/
▶combining form
- 1 relating to nutrition: oligotrophic.
- 2 relating to maintenance or regulation of a bodily organ or function, especially by a hormone.
– derivatives
-trophism combining form,
-trophy combining form.
-trophism combining form,
-trophy combining form.
– origin from Gk trophikos, from trophē ‘nourishment’.
'trophy' also found in these Oxford entries:
ash
- blue riband
- cape
- cup
- mask
- perpetual
- plate
- scalp
- shield
- tropaeolum
- -trophic
- trophy wife
- TT

