Meaning

(uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (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”).
3. Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.
4. (transitive, obsolete or rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).

Example Sentences

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: […]

Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.

VVhy ſo: then am I ſure of Victorie. Novv therefore let vs hence, and loſe no hovvre, / Till vvee meet VVarvvicke, vvith his forreine povvre.

Fortune and victorie ſet on thy helme.

The teares haue got ſmall victory by that, / For it vvas bad enough before their ſpite.

So likevviſe in that book of his [Julius Caesar's] Anticato, it may eaſily appeare that he did aſpire as vvell to victorie of vvit, as victory of vvarre: […]

Whereupon there was a very ſore battell: but Judas [Maccabeus] ſide by the helpe of God got the victory, […]

Word Forms

• victories
• victorie
• victorying
• victoried

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Use victory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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