victory

Noun

victory (countable and uncountable, plural victories)

1. (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.
   • I behelde, and the ſame horne made battail agaynſt the ſayntes, yee ãd gat the victory off them: […]1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Daniel vij:[21]...

   Synonyms:

   triumph, win

   Antonyms:

   defeat, loss

Interjection

1. Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.
   • Saint George and Victory; fight Souldiers, fight: […]1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • Victory! Victory to the prostrate nations! / Bear witness Night, and ye mute Constellations / Who gaze on us from your crystalline cars! / Thoughts have gone forth whose powers can sleep no more! / Victory! Victory!1817 December (indicated as 1818), Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, “Canto Fifth”, in Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. […], London: […] [F]or...

Verb

victory (third-person singular simple present victories, present participle victorying, simple past and past participle victoried)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).
   • [W]hen ſin got the upper hand of us, and vvee victoried by them; vve vvere then their ſervants, their ſlave: vvhen vvee overcome and have victoried them; let us make them our ſlaves perpetually; let us bind them in chaines, caſt them in priſon, and for ever utterly deſtroy their evill povver: […]1639, John Welles, “Of Mortification”, in The Soules Progresse to the Celestiall Canaan, or Heavenly Jerusalem. […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] and are to be sold by Henry Shephard […], →OCLC...
   • [The game of dice and ball] is near of kin, in the nature of the vvord to that game of Cock-all, vvhich boyes uſe amongſt us, vvhich Cock-all, is as much vvin and take all, as a Cock does vvho victorying, has not onely the praiſe of all, but vvins all thats laied on the match by the Abettors...1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLVIII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […]...

Proper noun capitalized: Victory

Victory (countable and uncountable, plural Victorys or Victories)

1. (uncountable) The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
2. A surname.
3. (Roman, uncountable) 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.
   • 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.1841, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Mr. Titmarsh to Miss Smith on the Second Funeral of Napoleon. Letter III. The Funeral Ceremony.”, in The Second Funeral of Napoleon...
   • 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...1953, Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, pages 475–476

   Synonyms:

   Victoria

4. A town in Cayuga County, New York.

   Synonyms:

   sura

5. A village in Saratoga County, New York.
6. A neighbourhood of Camden, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
7. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
8. A town in Essex County, Vermont.
9. An unincorporated community in Wheatland, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
10. A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226.
11. A volcano in Papua New Guinea, also known as Mount Victory.
12. (Philippines, abbreviation, colloquial, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Victory Liner, a bus company.