Victoria
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Latin victoria "victory"; also a feminine form of Victor
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- IPA: /viktɔɹiːə/
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Victoria
- A female given name
- A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).
- One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
- The capital of Seychelles.
- Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
- Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
- Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.
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- 1985 Dan Simmons: Song of Kali: ISBN 031286583X pages 4, 17:
- When I had first told him the name we'd chosen for our daughter, Abe had suggested that it was a pretty damn waspy title for the offspring of an Indian princess and a Chicago pollock.- - -
- I never would have chosen the name "Victoria" but was secretly delighted by it. Amrita first suggested it one hot day in July and we treated it as a joke. It seemed that one of her earliest memories was of arriving by train at Victoria Station in Bombay. That huge edifice - one of the remnants of the British Raj, which evidently still defines India - had always filled Amrita with a sense of awe. Since that time, the name Victoria had evoked an echo of beauty, elegance and mystery in her.
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female given name
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Queen Victoria
state in Australia
Lake Victoria
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Victoria
- A female given name, cognate to English Victoria; less often spelled Viktoria.
- Victoria, the queen.
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Victoria
- A female given name, cognate to Victoria.
- Victoria ( the queen, the lake )
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Victoria
- A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.
- Victoria, the queen
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Victoria
- A female given name, a popular spelling variant of Viktoria.
- Victoria, the queen.
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From the Latin name Victoria; also shortened from María (de la) Victoria, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Victory".
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Victoria f.
- A female given name.
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Victoria
- A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.
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