English Online Dictionary. What means victory? What does victory mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: vĭkʹtəri, vĭkʹtri, IPA(key): /ˈvɪktəɹi/, /ˈvɪktɹi/
- Hyphenation: vic‧tory
Etymology 1
The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye.
The interjection is derived from the noun.
Noun
victory (countable and uncountable, plural victories)
- (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
- Synonyms: triumph, win
- Antonyms: defeat, loss
- (Roman mythology) 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”)
Alternative forms
- victorie (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Maori: wikitōriatanga
Translations
Interjection
victory
- Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English victorien (“to overcome, vanquish”), from Old French victorier, or from Medieval Latin victōriāre, from Latin victōria (noun); see further at etymology 1.
Verb
victory (third-person singular simple present victories, present participle victorying, simple past and past participle victoried)
- (transitive, obsolete or rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).
References
Further reading
- victory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia