victory

English

Etymology

Middle English victory, victorie, from Old French victorie, from Latin victōria, from victor (“victor”). Displaced native Middle English siȝe, sye (“victory”) (from Old English siġe (“victory”)), Old English sigor (“victory, triumph”).

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Noun

victory (plural victories)

1. The state of having won a competition or battle.
   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, BBC Sport:

     England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.

Antonyms

• defeat
• loss

Derived terms

• hollow victory
• Pyrrhic victory
• victory at sea

Translations

the state of having won a competition or battle

Anglo-Norman: victorie Arabic: انتصار (ar) (intiSaar) m., نصر (ar) (naSr) m. Armenian: հաղթանակ (hy) (haġt'anak) Azeri: Roman: zəfər (az), qələbə (az), qalibiyyət (az) Cyrillic: зәфәр (az), гәләбә (az), галибијјәт (az) Arabic: ظفر (az), قلب (az) Belarusian: перамога (be) (peramóha) f. Bulgarian: победа (bg) (póbeda) f. Catalan: victòria (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 勝利 (cmn), 胜利 (cmn) (shènglì) Czech: vítězství (cs) n. Danish: sejr (da) c. Dutch: overwinning (nl) f., zege (nl) f. Esperanto: venko (eo) Estonian: võit (et) Finnish: voitto (fi) French: victoire (fr) f. Galician: victoria (gl) f. Georgian: გამარჯვება (ka) German: Sieg (de) m. Greek: νίκη (el) (níke) Hebrew: נצחון (he) (nitsahon) Hindi: विजय (hi) (vijay), ज़फ़र (hi) (zafar) m. Hungarian: győzelem (hu), diadal (hu) Icelandic: sigur (is) m. Ido: vinko (io) Indonesian: kemenangan (id) Italian: vittoria (it) f.

Japanese: 勝利 (ja) (しょうり, shōri), 勝ち (ja) (かち, kachi) Korean: 승리 (ko) (seungri) (勝利 (ko)) Latin: victoria (la) Latvian: uzvara (lv) Lithuanian: pergalė (lt) Macedonian: победа (mk) (póbeda) f. Malayalam: വിജയം (ml) (vijayaṁ) Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: seier (no) Norwegian Nynorsk: siger (nn) Old English: siġe (ang) m. Old French: victorie f. Old Norse: sigr Ottoman Turkish: ظفر (zafer) Persian: ظفر (fa) (zafar) Polish: zwycięstwo (pl) n. Portuguese: vitória (pt) f. Romanian: victorie (ro) f. Russian: победа (ru) (pobéda) f. Serbian: pobeda (sr) f. Serbo-Croatian: pobjeda (sh), pobeda (sh) Slovak: víťazstvo (sk) n. Slovene: zmaga (sl) f. Spanish: victoria (es) f. Swahili: ushidi (sw) Swedish: seger (sv) c. Tamil: வெற்றி (ta) (veṟṟi) Turkish: zafer (tr) Ukrainian: перемога (uk) (peremóha) f. Urdu: ظفر (ur) (zafar) Vietnamese: thắng lợi (vi)

Verb

victory (third-person singular simple present victories, present participle victorying, simple past and past participle victoried)

1. (rare) To achieve a victory