Meaning of victory | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
   uncountable
2. The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
   uncountable
3. The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; an instance of this
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”).
   Roman, alt-of, countable, uncountable
6. Obsolete, the process of conquering or defeating; achieving victory.
   Obsolete,
7. Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“ the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also , an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”)
8. Synonym of Victoria (“the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike”); also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman.
   Roman, uncountable
9. celebration of victory with songs and clamor.
10. Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph
11. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
12. A town in Cayuga County, New York.
    countable, uncountable
13. The act of conquering:conquest, triumph, win.
14. To defeat or triumph over (someone or something)
15. A village in Saratoga County, New York.
    countable, uncountable
16. the person who wins a battle or other contest. wenner مُنْتَصِر победител vencedor vítěz der/die Sieger(in) sejrherre; vinder νικητήςvencedor, ganador võitja آدم پیروز voittaja vainqueurמנצח विजेता pobjednik győztes pemenang sigurvegari vincitore 勝者 정복자, 우승자 laimėtojas, nugalėtojas uzvarētājs yg menang` overwinnaarseierherrezwycięzca vencedor învingător победитель víťaz zmagovalec pobednik segrare, segerherre ผู้ชนะ kazanan, fatih 勝利者 переможець فاتح người chiến thắng 胜利者
17. A neighbourhood of Camden, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
18. successful or winning. the victorious army; Which team was victorious? oorwinnend مُنْتَصِر победен vencedor vítězný siegreich sejrrig νικηφόρος, νικητήςvictorioso võidukas پیروز voittoisa victorieuxמנצח विजयी pobjednički győztes menang sigursæll vittorioso 勝った 승리의 pergalingas, laimėjęs uzvarošs; uzvarām vainagots menang zegevierendseierrik, seirendezwycięski vencedor victorios победоносный víťazný zmagovit pobednički segrande, segerrik ซึ่งมีชัยชนะ zafer kazanmış 勝利的 переможний فتحياب chiến ...
19. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
    countable, uncountable
20. oorwinnend بانتِصار победоносно vencedoramente vítězně siegreich sejrrigt νικηφόρα victoriosamente võidukalt بطور پیروز مندانه voitokkaasti victorieusement כִמנַצֵח विजय पूर्वक, जीत के साथ pobjednički győztesen dengan penuh kemenangan á sigursælan hátt vittoriosamente 勝って 승리를 거두어 pergalingai uzvaroši menang zegevierendseirende zwycięsko vencedoramente victorios победоносно víťazne zmagoslavno pobednički segrande, segerrikt อย่างมีชัยชนะ zaferle, galibiyetle 勝利地 переможно فتح مندي سے chiến thắ...
21. A town in Essex County, Vermont.
    countable, uncountable
22. (a) defeat of an enemy or rival. Our team has had two defeats and eight victories; At last they experienced the joy of victory. oorwinning إنتِصار победа vitória vítězství der Sieg sejr νίκηvictoria võit پیروزی voitto victoireניצחון विजय pobjeda győzelem kemenangan sigur vittoria 勝利 승리 pergalë uzvara kemenangan overwinningseierzwycięstwovitória victorie победа víťazstvo zmaga pobeda seger ชัยชนะ zafer, galibiyet 勝利 перемога فتح، کاميابي chiến thắng 胜利
23. An unincorporated community in Wheatland, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
24. A defeat of an enemy or opponent: Napolean had many victories in battle.
25. A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226.
    countable, uncountable
26. A success in a struggle against difficulties or an obstacle: a victory over his greatest fear.
27. A volcano in Papua New Guinea, also known as Mount Victory.
    countable, uncountable
28. The state or fact of having defeated an opponent or of having achieved success: soldiers entering the city in victory.
29. Ellipsis of Victory Liner, a bus company.
    Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It was a great victory on the battlefield.”

“I behelde, and the ſame horne made battail agaynſt the ſayntes, yee ãd gat the victory off them: […]”

“Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.”

“VVhy ſo: then am I ſure of Victorie. Novv therefore let vs hence, and loſe no hovvre, / Till vvee meet VVarvvicke, vvith his forreine povvre.”

“Fortune and victorie ſet on thy helme.”

“The teares haue got ſmall victory by that, / For it vvas bad enough before their ſpite.”

“So likevviſe in that book of his [Julius Caesar's] Anticato, it may eaſily appeare that he did aſpire as vvell to victorie of vvit, as victory of vvarre: […]”

“Whereupon there was a very ſore battell: but Judas [Maccabeus] ſide by the helpe of God got the victory, […]”

“But before I went from the office newes is brought by word of mouth that letters are now just now brought from the fleete of our taking a great many more of the Dutch fleete, […] Down to the office, and there wrote letters to and again about this good newes of our victory, and so by water home late.”

“[S]uffering for Truths ſake / Is fortitude to higheſt victorie, […]”

“Obſerve if he diſdains to yield the Prize; / Of Loſs impatient, proud of Victories.”

“[…] I thought he vvas not a Monarch only, but a great Conqueror; for that he that has got a Victory over his ovvn exorbitant Deſires, and has the abſolute Dominion over himſelf, vvhose Reaſon entirely governs his VVill, is certainly greater than he that conquers a City.”

“He had never dreamt, hovvever, of any event ſo deciſive and ſo fatal as the victory at Pavia, vvhich ſeemed not only to have broken, but to have annihilated the povver of one of the rivals; […]”

“[I]t vvas his [Totila's] conſtant theme, that national vice and ruin are inſeparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as vvell as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are reſponſible for the crimes vvhich they neglect to puniſh.”

“[B]urn his rage / Hovv fierce ſoever, he ſhall find it hard / VVith all his thirſt of victory, to quell / Their firm reſiſtance, […]”

“Every body was surprised; and Darcy, after looking at her for a moment, turned silently away. Mrs. Bennet, who fancied she had gained a complete victory over him, continued her triumph.”

“"Farewell," he said, "the only hope, which could have lighted me to fame or victory!"”

“A hope, still indeed faint and indefinite, of victory and revenge, animated the party which had lately seemed to be extinct.”

“Already there are certain signs that politicians within the Republican party are suffering from the intoxication of too much victory.”

“England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.”

“All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.”

“All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.”

“The two reverse groupings which originate on sestertii of Hadrian (BMCCRE III, pl. 79, 7), continue through the coinage of Caracalla, and show Victory floating or standing to the left or right with a standard or trophy held crosswise and extended in the hands are nothing more than the translations of similarly arranged Victoriae from the spandrels of triumphal arches to coin reverses.”

“Behind Roma seated with Victoriola on the exten ded^([sic]) hand a full-sized Victory approaches from the right with crown and palm.”

“We know from Dio that, when the Curia Iulia, begun by Caesar in 44 B.C., was finally dedicated in 29 B.C., Octavian set up a statue of Victory beside the altar of Victoria which he also dedicated there (51, 22, 2).[…]The type, which inspired innumerable copies, appears on coins by 31 B.C., if not earlier, and shows such a Victory holding in the right hand a wreath and in the left a palm branch, occasionally other attributes. Four years later, when Augustus received the clupeus virtutis, this was placed near the statue of Victory in the Curia Iulia.[…]The fact that there are two Victories at Lugdunum raises a different question, however.”

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