victory
UK /ˈvɪktəɹi/ · US /ˈvɪktɚi/ noun, interjection, verb, proper noun
Forms victories victorying victoried Victorys victorie
- noun (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this. “It was a great victory on the battlefield.”
- interjection Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.
- verb (transitive, obsolete or rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).
- proper noun (uncountable) The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun (uncountable, Roman mythology) 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.
- proper noun A town in Cayuga County, New York.
- proper noun A village in Saratoga County, New York.
- proper noun A neighbourhood of Camden, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
- proper noun A town in Essex County, Vermont.
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Etymology
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.
Cognate with French victoire, Italian vittoria, Portuguese vitoria, Spanish victoria, Romanian victorie.
Tamil வெற்றி (veṟṟi) (pronounced roughly like "vetri") is a false cognate.
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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; --the opposite of Ant: defeat.
Etymology [OE. victorie, OF. victorie, victoire, F. victoire, L. victoria. See Victor.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “victory”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details