victory

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɪktəɹi/, [ˈvɪktʰəɹɪi̯] (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈvɪktəɹɪj/, /ˈvɪkt͡ʃ(ə)ɹɪj/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɪktɚi/, [ˈvɪktʰɚɪi̯] ~ [ˈvɪktʰɹ̩ɪi̯] 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 ===== → Māori: 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