Other forms: victories
Victory is the result of beating everyone. A famous victory, claim victory, victory over them.
It is grander than a win and belongs to battles, elections and finals. A Pyrrhic victory costs the winner so much that it is barely worth having, named after a king who said another such victory would ruin him. Note victorious, victor; and that HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship, is still a commissioned ship of the Royal Navy.
1nounvictoryThe result of beating everyone.
“The team celebrated their victory with a party in the town square.”
victory is a win.
Also accepted in games: win
Latin victoria comes from victor, from vincere, to conquer. Convince, evict and invincible come from the same conquering.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyk- — to contain, envelop; to overcome
Latin
victōria — victory
Old French
victorie
Anglo-Norman
victorie
Middle English
victory
English, today
victory
Built from
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”)victorye, viktori, vitorie, vittori, vittorie, vyctory, vyktorye, (Kent) fictorie, fyctorye, (Northern England) wictori, wictorie, wictorrie, 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. The English word is analysable as victor + y, and siȝe, sye. The interjection is derived from the noun. 2
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