trophy
adjective/ˈtrəʊfi/
/ˈtrəʊfi/
[only before noun] (informal, disapproving)- trophy building/art/girlfriend, etc. an impressive or beautiful thing or person that you have in order to make other people admire you
- We don't need a trophy building for our business.
- These people are interested in opera as a trophy event.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in sense (3)): from French trophée, via Latin from Greek tropaion, from tropē ‘a rout’, from trepein ‘to turn’.Definitions on the go
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