Victoria

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Proper noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Quotations 1.3.4 Translations 2 Danish 2.1 Proper noun 3 French 3.1 Proper noun 3.1.1 Related terms 4 German 4.1 Proper noun 5 Norwegian 5.1 Proper noun 6 Spanish 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Proper noun 7 Swedish 7.1 Proper noun

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[edit] Etymology

Latin victoria "victory"; also a feminine form of Victor

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• IPA: /viktɔɹiːə/
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Singular Victoria

Plural -

Victoria

1. A female given name
2. A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).
3. One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
4. The capital of Seychelles.
5. Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
6. Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
7. Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.

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• Queen Victoria
• Victorian
• (pet forms of the given name): Vickey, Vicki, Vickie, Vicky

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• Victoria Day

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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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Victoria

1. A female given name, cognate to English Victoria; less often spelled Viktoria.
2. Victoria, the queen.

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Victoria

1. A female given name, cognate to Victoria.
2. Victoria ( the queen, the lake )

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• (female given names): Victoire, Victorine

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Victoria

1. A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.
2. Victoria, the queen

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Victoria

1. A female given name, a popular spelling variant of Viktoria.
2. Victoria, the queen.

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[edit] Etymology

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.

1. A female given name.

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Victoria

1. A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.