Meaning of Victoria | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.
   Roman, countable, uncountable
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. One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
4. A female given name from Latin.
   countable, uncountable
5. A Victoria plum.
6. Numerous places:
   countable, uncountable
7. A state of Australia, located in the southeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1851 to 1901. Capital: Melbourne.
   countable, uncountable
8. vagina
   slang
9. A city, the capital of Seychelles.
   countable, uncountable
10. A place in Canada:
    countable, uncountable
11. A city, the capital of British Columbia.
    countable, uncountable
12. A rural municipality of Manitoba.
    countable, uncountable
13. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    countable, uncountable
14. A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
    countable, uncountable
15. A commune and city in Chile.
    countable, uncountable
16. A former department of Chile.
    countable, uncountable
17. The main town of the federal territory of Labuan, Malaysia.
    countable, uncountable
18. A town and local council, the capital of the Gozo Region.
    countable, uncountable
19. A settlement in Hong Kong, often referred to as its capital; in full, the City of Victoria.
    countable, uncountable
20. A town in Grenada.
    countable, uncountable
21. A place in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
22. A city, the county seat of Victoria County, Texas.
    countable, uncountable
23. A town in Lunenburg County, Virginia, named after Queen Victoria.
    countable, uncountable
24. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Victoria Township.
    countable, uncountable
25. A place in the United Kingdom:
    countable, uncountable
26. A hamlet in Roche parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9861).
    countable, uncountable
27. A large railway terminus in central London.
    countable, uncountable
28. A hamlet in Dunford parish, Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, on the West Yorkshire boundary and probably named after the Victoria Inn (OS grid ref SE1705)
    countable, uncountable
29. Ellipsis of Victoria Line of the London Underground.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
30. A community and ward in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST315880).
    countable, uncountable
31. A suburban area in Cwm community, Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1706).
    countable, uncountable
32. A town in Cabañas department, El Salvador.
    countable, uncountable
33. A locale in the Philippines.
    countable, uncountable
34. A municipality of Laguna.
    countable, uncountable
35. A municipality of Northern Samar.
    countable, uncountable
36. A municipality of Tarlac.
    countable, uncountable
37. Ellipsis of Lake Victoria: the largest lake in Africa.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
38. Ellipsis of Victoria County.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
39. The largest main-belt asteroid in Asteroid Belt, Solar System.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“Riding along the busy, narrow roads of Bali on her scooter with the sun illuminating her face, Victoria Kjos has a clear destination in sight — the beach.”

“A mere 150 round-leaf pomaderris were thought left in the world in 2021 and now a planned firebreak in Victoria could destroy dozens of the plants.”

“On the 21st of November, the Imperial Chinese Commissioner Keying, arrived at Victoria, Hong Kong, whither he was conveyed in a British Government steamer from Whampoa, the object of his visit being the settlement of matters between the Chinese and British Governments, preparatory to the surrender of Chusan to the Chinese.”

“Royal Marines, officers and men from the British cruisers Swiftsure and Euryalus have landed in the naval dockyard area at Victoria, Hong Kong, and raised the white ensign.”

“I eased into the cut-rate canyon by taxiing around Hong Kong -- both the island and the Kowloon peninsula -- to orient myself. The major shopping district is as difficult to grasp initially as its tongue-tripping name, Tsimshatsui. This is in Kowloon, across the harbor from Victoria, Hong Kong's major business section, which also is chocked with shopping opportunities. The Star Ferry tootles between the two cities.”

“He was forty-two years old when he died and has no known grave, but his name can be seen on the Hong Kong Memorial at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens in Victoria, Hong Kong.”

“London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.”

“Pears are practically a failure, and there are no early or late Plums, but Victorias are a heavy crop, of small inferior fruits.”

“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.”

“The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.”

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