Definition of "Victoria"

Victoria

/vɪkˈtɔː.ɹi.ə/

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Victorias or Victoriae
1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.
2. A female given name from Latin.
  Quotations
  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.
  1985, Dan Simmons, Song of Kali, pages 4, 17
3. The queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901.
  Quotations
  Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears,* although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious. Let us hope, and we have reason to hope, that the Queen will nationalize that of Victoria, and make it the theme of song and history with that of Elizabeth. *George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
  1838 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign, April 1838, pages 512-513
4. A placename:
  1. One of six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent. Capital: Melbourne.
  2. (historical, Australia) A former colony of Britain in what is now the state of Victoria, Australia.
  3. A city, the capital of Seychelles.
  4. A place in Canada
    A city, the capital of British Columbia.
    A rural municipality of Manitoba.
    A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
  5. The main town of the federal territory of Labuan, Malaysia.
  6. The capital city of Gozo, the second-largest island of Malta.
  7. The City of Victoria, a settlement in Hong Kong often referred to as its capital.
    Quotations
    Royal Marines, officers and men from the British cruisers Swiftsure and Euryalus have landed in the naval dockyard area at Victoria, Hong Kong, and raised the white ensign.
    1945 September 2 , “BRITISH UNITS TAKE PART OF HONG KONG; But Admiral Is Unable to Find Japanese Commander for the Surrender Ceremony”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-09, page 12‎
  8. A town in Grenada.
  9. A place in the United States
    A city, the county seat of Victoria County, Texas.
    A town in Lunenburg County, Virginia, named after Queen Victoria.
    A number of townships in the United States, listed under Victoria Township.
  10. A place in the United Kingdom:
    A hamlet in Roche parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9861).
    A large railway terminus in central London.
    A hamlet in Dunford parish, Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, on the West Yorkshire boundary and probably named after the Victoria Inn (OS grid ref SE1705)
    Ellipsis of Victoria Line. of the London Underground.
    Quotations
    London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.
    1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256
    A community and ward in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST315880).
    A suburban area in Cwm community, Blaenau Gwent county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1706).
  11. A locale in the Philippines
    A municipality of Laguna.
    A municipality of Northern Samar.
    A municipality of Tarlac.
  12. Ellipsis of Lake Victoria., the largest lake in Africa.
  13. (astronomy) 12 Victoria An asteroid in Asteroid Belt, Solar System, a main belt asteroid.
  14. Ellipsis of Victoria County.
noun
plural Victorias
1. One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
2. A Victoria plum.
  Quotations
  Pears are practically a failure, and there are no early or late Plums, but Victorias are a heavy crop, of small inferior fruits.
  1916, The Gardeners' Chronicle

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