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Victoria

Vic-to′ri-a

,
p
rop.
Noun.
[NL.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen
Victoria
. The
Victoria regia
is a native of
Guiana
and
Brazil
. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
2.
A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
3.
(Astron.)
An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; – called also
Clio
.
Victoria cross
,
a bronze Maltese cross, awarded for valor to members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of £10 a year.
–
Victoria green
.
(Chem.)
See
Emerald green
, under
Green
.
–
Victoria lily
(Bot.)
,
the
Victoria regia
. See def. 1, above.

Definition 2024

Victoria

Victoria

See also: victoria, victória, and victòria

Translingual

Victoria amazonica

Etymology

From Latin victōria ‎(“victory”).

Proper noun

Victoria f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphaeaceae – certain waterlilies with very large flat leaves, native to the Amazon.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Geometridae – certain moths native to Africa.
  3. A taxonomic genus within the superfamily Kloedenelloidea – Soleaua, fossil crustaceans.
  4. A taxonomic genus within the family Scarabaeidae – certain scarab beetles. A junior synonym of the genus Hoplia.

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Hyponyms

plant
moth
crustacean (fossil)

English

12 Victoria astronomical symbol

Proper noun

Victoria

  1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of victory; equivalent to the Greek goddess Nike.
  2. A female given name.
    • 1985 Dan Simmons: Song of Kali: ISBN 031286583X pages 4, 17:
      When I had first told him the name we'd chosen for our daughter, Abe had suggested that it was a pretty damn waspy title for the offspring of an Indian princess and a Chicago pollock.- - -
      I never would have chosen the name "Victoria" but was secretly delighted by it. Amrita first suggested it one hot day in July and we treated it as a joke. It seemed that one of her earliest memories was of arriving by train at Victoria Station in Bombay. That huge edifice - one of the remnants of the British Raj, which evidently still defines India - had always filled Amrita with a sense of awe. Since that time, the name Victoria had evoked an echo of beauty, elegance and mystery in her.
  3. The queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901.
    • 1838 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign, April 1838, pages 512-513:
      Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears,* although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious. Let us hope, and we have reason to hope, that the Queen will nationalize that of Victoria, and make it the theme of song and history with that of Elizabeth.
      *George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
  4. One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
  5. (historical, Australia) The British colony in what is now the Australian state of Victoria.
  6. The capital of Seychelles.
  7. Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
  8. A rural municipality in Manitoba
  9. Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
  10. Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.
  11. The City of Victoria, a settlement in Hong Kong often referred to as its capital
  12. A town in Grenada
  13. A city in Texas
  14. (astronomy) Short for 12 Victoria, a main belt asteroid.

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Translations

Noun

Victoria ‎(plural Victorias)

  1. One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
  2. A Victoria plum.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin Victoria.

Proper noun

Victoria

  1. A female given name.

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French

Proper noun

Victoria

  1. A female given name, cognate to Victoria.
  2. Victoria (the lake)

Related terms

  • (female given names): Victoire, Victorine

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vɪkˈtoːʀia]
  • Hyphenation: Vic‧to‧ria

Proper noun

Victoria

  1. A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Victoria

  1. A female given name, a popular spelling variant of Viktoria.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Victoria f

  1. A female given name, equivalent to English Victoria. Feminine of Victor

Spanish

Etymology

From the Latin name Victoria; also shortened from María (de la) Victoria, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Victory".

Proper noun

Victoria f

  1. A female given name.
  2. Victoria (a state of Australia)

Swedish

Proper noun

Victoria

  1. A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.

victoria

victoria

See also: Victoria, victória, and victòria

English

Noun

victoria ‎(plural victorias)

  1. A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter I”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:victoria.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin victōria.

Noun

victoria f ‎(plural victories)

  1. victory

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin victōria.

Noun

victoria f ‎(plural victorias)

  1. victory

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Latin

Etymology

From victor ‎(“conqueror”).

Pronunciation

Noun

victōria f ‎(genitive victōriae); first declension

  1. victory

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative victōria victōriae
genitive victōriae victōriārum
dative victōriae victōriīs
accusative victōriam victōriās
ablative victōriā victōriīs
vocative victōria victōriae

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References

  • victoria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • victoria in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “victoria”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    • to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam adipisci, parere
    • to gain a victory, win a battle: victoriam ferre, referre
    • to gain a victory over the enemy: victoriam reportare ab hoste
    • to consider oneself already victor: victoriam praecipere (animo) (Liv. 10. 26)
    • to let a sure victory slip through one's hands: victoriam exploratam dimittere
    • as if the victory were already won: sicut parta iam atque explorata victoria
    • to raise a shout of victory: victoriam conclamare (B. G. 5. 37)
    • to congratulate a person on his victory: victoriam or de victoria gratulari alicui
    • the victory cost much blood and many wounds, was very dearly bought: victoria multo sanguine ac vulneribus stetit (Liv. 23. 30)
    • to triumph over some one: triumphum agere de or ex aliquo or c. Gen. (victoriae, pugnae)
  • victoria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • victoria in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • victoria in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Portuguese

Noun

victoria f (plural victorias)

  1. Obsolete form of vitória.

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin victōria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bikˈto.ɾia/, [bikˈto̞ɾjä]

Noun

victoria f ‎(plural victorias)

  1. victory

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Related terms

Etymology

From Latin Victoria, from victoria ‎(“victory”). Can also be interpreted as a feminine form of Victor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːriə

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