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Victoria
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From Latin Victoria, from victoria (“victory”). Can also be interpreted as a feminine form of Victor.
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Proper noun
Victoria
- (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of victory; equivalent to the Greek goddess Nike.
- A female given name.
- 1838 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign, April 1838, pages 512-513:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1838 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign, April 1838, pages 512-513:
- 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.
- (historical, Australian) The British colony in what is now the Australian state of Victoria.
- 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.
- (astronomy) 12 Victoria, an asteroid.
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Danish
Proper noun
Victoria
- A female given name, cognate to English Victoria; less often spelled Viktoria.
- Victoria, the queen.
French
Proper noun
Victoria
- A female given name, cognate to Victoria.
- Victoria ( the queen, the lake )
Related terms
- (female given names): Victoire, Victorine
German
Proper noun
Victoria
- A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.
- Victoria, the queen
Norwegian
Proper noun
Victoria
- A female given name, a popular spelling variant of Viktoria.
- Victoria, the queen.
Spanish
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".
Proper noun
Victoria f.
- A female given name.
Swedish
Proper noun
Victoria
- A female given name, a spelling variant of Viktoria.
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