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Definitions: Victorious |
VictoriousAdjective1. Having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team". 2. Experiencing triumph. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "victorious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Victorious \Vic*to"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression victoriosus: compare to the French expression victorieux. See Victory.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: VictoriousSynonyms: triumphant (adj), winning (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Success | Adjective: succeeding; Verb: successful; prosperous; triumphant; flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious, on top; set up; in the ascendant; unbeaten; (see beat; Verb:); well-spent; felicitous, effective, in full swing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Victorious |
| English words defined with "victorious": Choragic monument, conqueror ♦ defeated ♦ flying colors ♦ losing ♦ To come off with flying colors, Triumphing, Triumplant ♦ undefeated ♦ vanquisher, victoriously ♦ win, winning. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "victorious": Capua, Chinese Gordon ♦ Dogs ♦ Flight ♦ Hassan ♦ INDECISION ♦ Lion ♦ Manicheism ♦ Navy ♦ Palmy Days ♦ Shields, Spurs ♦ Tocsin ♦ ultimatum ♦ Waldemar's Way. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "victorious": VERONICA. (references) |
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Screenplays | The rest must wait until the victorious culmination of my campaign in Italy. (Desirée; writing credit: Annemarie Selinko; Daniel Taradash) But I do know, here today, that the Black Knights will emerge victorious once again. (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich) If we are not victorious, let no one came back alive. (Patton; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North) We may be retreating, butwe're still victorious. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Serbia Victorious (1917) The Victorious Jockey (1915) | |
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 | The Speaker's victorious surrender.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Victorious gladiator standing on defeated gladiator with crowd giving thumbs down signal, at the Colosseum, Rome, Italy.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Victorious Advance of Genl. Sykes (regulars) May 1st.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Victorious United States fleet off Tompkinsville, S.I.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Battle of Buena Vista. Fought Feby. 23rd, 1847. In which the American Army under Gel. Taylor were completely victorious.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | People of all nationalities celebrate the victorious opening of the 5th National People's Congress.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gallantly celebrating the victorious convening of the Fifth National People's Congress.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Pheidippides | Rejoice, we are victorious. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time. (reference) |
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Economic History | Israel | This time, the Labor candidate--Ehud Barak--was victorious. (references) |
Spain | Most experts believe that Spain can financially support only one platform and that only one group will emerge victorious. (references) | |
Japan | World War I permitted Japan, which fought on the side of the victorious Allies, to expand its influence in Asia and its territorial holdings in the Pacific. (references) | |
Political Economy | Moldova | The Communists, who were victorious in the recent parliamentary elections, have discussed another administrative restructuring. (references) |
Political Rights | Guinea | When the victorious PUP councils could not agree on who should be appointed to leadership positions, President Conte named several mayors himself, in a move that observers criticized widely as unconstitutional and irregular. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. Having received an ultimatum from Austria, the Turkish Ministry met to consider it. "O servant of the Prophet," said the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk to the Mamoosh of the Invincible Army, "how many unconquerable soldiers have we in arms?" "Upholder of the Faith," that dignitary replied after examining his memoranda, "they are in numbers as the leaves of the forest!" "And how many impenetrable battleships strike terror to the hearts of all Christian swine?" he asked the Imaum of the Ever Victorious Navy. "Uncle of the Full Moon," was the reply, "deign to know that they are as the waves of the ocean, the sands of the desert and the stars of Heaven!" For eight hours the broad brow of the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk was corrugated with evidences of deep thought: he was calculating the chances of war. Then, "Sons of angels," he said, "the die is cast! I shall suggest to the Ulema of the Imperial Ear that he advise inaction. In the name of Allah, the council is adjourned." |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | Having prepared the way by this demonstration of American skill and prowess, he hastened to the port of Algiers, where peace was promptly yielded to his victorious force. |
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| "Victorious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.41% of the time. "Victorious" is used about 306 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.41% | 295 | 16,921 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.59% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 306 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "victorious". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nicanor | N/A | Biblical | Victorious |
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Expressions using "victorious": be victorious ♦ be victorious over smb.. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "victorious": all-victorious, already-victorious. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "victorious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fitues (prevailing, successful, Victor, winner, winning), fitimtar (bandwagon, triumphant, Victor, winner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منتصر ظافر, غالب (dominant, predominant, predominating, preponderant, triumphant), إنتصاري (triumphal), ظافر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който е победил, победоносен (triumphal, triumphant), победен (beaten, defeated, prostrate, triumphant, victory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胜 (able to bear, learn by heart, peptide, the back of the body, to be burdened, to carry on the back or shoulder), 战胜 (surmount, surmounted, Surmounting), 凱 (triumphant), 勝 (able to bear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vítìzný (palmy, triumphal, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فاتح (Conqueror, Victor, Winner), پیروز (Conqueror, Palmary, Triumphant, Victor, Winsome), مظفر, ظفرمیز, ظفرنشان . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | voittoisa, voitollinen, voitokas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | victorieux (victorian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | siegreich (conquering, conqueringly, palmy, successful, triumphant, victoriously, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νικηφόροσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ צח (conqueror, triumphant, winner), צח י (polemical, triumphal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyõztes (conqueror, top dog, vanquisher, Victor, winner), gyõzedelmes (triumphant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | buach. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vittorioso (winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 戦勝国 (victorious nation), 凱旋軍 (returning victorious army), 仏 尊勝 (Usnisavijaya, Victorious Goddess of the Chignon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がいせ"ぐ" (returning victorious army), ぶちょうそ"しょう (Usnisavijaya, Victorious Goddess of the Chignon), せ"しょう"く (victorious nation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 승리 (triumphant, Victories, Victory, WIN, WINS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | barrialtagh (triumphant, victor), barriaghtoil, barriaghtagh (conquering, triumphant, victor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ictoriousvay vitorioso (triumphant, winning), vencedor (master, vanquisher, Victor, winner, winning). (various references) victorios (palmy, triumphantly, victoriously, winning), biruitor (conqueror, triumphant, triumphantly, vanquisher, Victor, victoriously), învingãtor (champion, conqueror, triumphant, vanquisher, winner). (various references) победоносный (triumphant), победный. (various references) pobedonosan (triumphant, victor, winning). (various references) victorioso (triumphant, winning), vencedor (conquering, conqueror, top dog, vanquisher, Victor, winning). (various references) segrande (winning), segerrik (triumphant). (various references) zafer kazanmış (triumphant), muzaffer (triumphant), galip (champion, conquering, prevailing, top dog, triumphant, vanquisher, Victor, winner), başarılı (accomplished, going, going far, prosperous, successful, thriving, well done). (various references) яьwьrmek (be victorious, vanquish), яeсmek (be victorious, conquer, defeat). (various references) переможний (triumphant). (various references) thắng cuộc, chiến thắng (triumphal, triumphant). (various references) buddugoliaethus (triumphant), buddugol (winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | laurifer. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | aiwithûranãm, vârethrakhnish, verethraja, verethrakhnahe. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "victorious": victoriously, victoriousness, victoriousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Victorious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: victorius, victreous. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "victorious" (pronounced viktô"rēus) |
| 6 | -t ô" r ē u s | meritorious, notorious, Sartorius. |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u s | glorious, inglorious, laborious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, furious, gregarious, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, injurious, lugubrious, mysterious, nefarious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, serious, spurious, various, vicarious, vitreous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-o-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: virtuosic. | |
-2 letters: virtuosi, virtuoso. | |
-3 letters: citrous, octrois, riotous, soritic, vicious, victors, visitor, vitrics. | |
-4 letters: citrus, coitus, courts, curios, octroi, rictus, rustic, suitor, torous, victor, virtus, vitric. | |
-5 letters: coirs, coots, court, crust, curio, curst, cutis, ictus, riots, roost, roots, rotis, rotos, roust, routs, scoot, scour, scout, stoic, stour, tiros, torcs, toric, torii, toros, torsi, torso, torus, tours, trios, trois, virtu, virus, visit, visor. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-o-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: victoriously. | |
+3 letters: insectivorous. | |
+4 letters: oversolicitous, victoriousness. | |
+5 letters: circumvolutions, microevolutions, overdiscounting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 69 63 74 6F 72 69 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. -.-. - --- .-. .. --- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01101001 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V i c t o r i o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0069 0063 0074 006F 0072 0069 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56756986818475818785 |
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