victory

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A success in a battle, contest, or struggle.

   The team celebrated their victory over their rivals.

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Simplified etymology

Victory entered English in the medieval period from Latin victoria, ‘victory’. Its ultimate root is Latin vincere, ‘to conquer’.

The noun is derived from Middle English victory, victori, victorie (“supremacy, victory; a defeat or vanquishing, conquest; superior military force; might, power, strength; triumphal celebration or procession; monument commemorating a defeat; superior position, dominance; mastery; moral victory, vindication; success, triumph; redemption, salvation; resurrection of Jesus; means of achieving spiritual victory; reward for or token of perseverance in a spiritual struggle”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman victorie and Old French victorie, a variant of victoire (“victory, win”) (modern…

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