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vic·to·ria (vik tôr′ē ə)

noun

  1. a late-19th-cent. four-wheeled carriage for two passengers, with a folding top and high seat in front for the coachman
  2. an early touring automobile with a folding top over the rear seat
  3. any of a genus (Victoria) of South American waterlilies (family Nymphaeaceae) with platterlike leaves up to seven feet wide and large, night-blooming flowers

Etymology: after Queen Victoria

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Vic·to·ria (vik tôr′ē ə)

noun

a feminine name: dim. Vicki, Vickie, Vicky; equiv. Fr. Victoire, It. Vittoria, Sp. Vitoria

Etymology: L, victory

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Vic·to·ria (vik tôr′ē ə)

(born Alexandrina Victoria) 1819-1901; queen of Great Britain & Ireland (1837-1901); empress of India (1876-1901): granddaughter of George III
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Vic·to·ria (vik tôr′ē ə)

  1. state of Australia, in the SE part: 88,075 sq mi (228,113 sq km); pop. 4,244,000; cap. Melbourne
  2. Hong Kong (the city)

  3. Etymology: after Queen Victoria

    capital of British Columbia, Canada: seaport on SE Vancouver Island: pop. 74,000
  4. capital of the Seychelles, on Mahé island: pop. 24,000
  5. city in SE Tex.: pop. 61,000

    Etymology: orig. name Sp Guadalupe Victoria, after the 1st president (1824-28) of the Mexican Republic

  6. lake in E Africa, bounded by Kenya, Uganda, & Tanzania: 26,828 sq mi (69,484 sq km)
  7. island of the Arctic Archipelago, Canada, east of Banks Island: 83,896 sq mi (217,290 sq km)

    Etymology: after Queen Victoria

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victoria Usage Examples

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Adjective modifier

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Modifies a noun

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It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking toVictoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons.

-Manchester,William Raymond

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

-Speke,John Hanning

If this is the way QueenVictoria treats her prisoners she doesn't deserve to have any.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

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