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victory

[ vik-tuh-ree, vik-tree ]

noun

plural victories.
  1. a success or triumph over an enemy in battle or war.

    Antonyms:

  2. an engagement ending in such triumph:

    American victories in the Pacific were won at great cost.

    Antonyms:

  3. the ultimate and decisive superiority in any battle or contest:

    The new vaccine effected a victory over poliomyelitis.

    Antonyms:

  4. a success or superior position achieved against any opponent, opposition, difficulty, etc.:

    a moral victory.

  5. (initial capital letter) the ancient Roman goddess Victoria, often represented in statues or on coins as the personification of victory.


victory

1

/ ˈ±¹Éª°ì³ÙÉ™°ùɪ /

noun

  1. final and complete superiority in a war
  2. a successful military engagement
  3. a success attained in a contest or struggle or over an opponent, obstacle, or problem
  4. the act of triumphing or state of having triumphed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Victory

2

/ ˈ±¹Éª°ì³ÙÉ™°ùɪ /

noun

  1. another name (in English) for Victoria 3
  2. another name (in English) for Nike
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±¹¾±³¦î€ƒt´Ç·°ù²â·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
  • ²Ô´Ç²Ô·±¹¾±³¦î€ƒt´Ç·°ù²â noun plural nonvictories
  • ²õ³Üp±ð°ù·±¹¾±³¦î€ƒt´Ç·°ù²â noun plural supervictories
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of victory1

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English victorie, from Latin ±¹¾±³¦³ÙÅ°ù¾±²¹, equivalent to ±¹¾±³¦³ÙÅ°ù-, stem of victor victor + -ia -y 3
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of victory1

C14: from Old French victorie, from Latin ±¹¾±³¦³ÙÅ°ù¾±²¹, from vincere to subdue
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Idioms and Phrases

see pyrrhic victory .
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Synonym Study

Victory, conquest, triumph refer to a successful outcome of a struggle. Victory suggests the decisive defeat of an opponent in a contest of any kind: victory in battle; a football victory. Conquest implies the taking over of control by the victor, and the obedience of the conquered: a war of conquest; the conquest of Peru. Triumph implies a particularly outstanding victory: the triumph of a righteous cause; the triumph of justice.
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“We are not a nation that sends people to be tortured and victimized in a foreign prison for public relations victories,†Newsom wrote to Noem.

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He faced Stephen Bunting on the back of his opponent winning his first points of the campaign following a night victory a week ago, and lifting the International Open title on Sunday.

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It's the first big set of polls since Labour's landslide victory in last year's general election.

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Republicans would be foolish to treat this 90-day pause as a victory big enough to justify scurrying back to their holes, to hide from the wrath of Dear Leader.

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McIlroy leads the players from Great Britain and Northern Ireland trying to secure a rare victory at Augusta.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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