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Victoria

noun

Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901). Synonym: Queen Victoria.

(Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike.

A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally. Synonym: Victoria Falls.

A town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio.

Port city and the capital of Seychelles. Synonym: capital of Seychelles.

A state in southeastern Australia.

Capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island.

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"Victoria" Quotes from Famous Books

... uniform"—i. e., uniform of a soldier of Queen Victoria, who was often affectionately ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... se dejaron de la suia, iendo los vnos i los otros a desnudar los Espanoles muertos, i aun algunos vivos, que por sus heridas no se podian defender, porque como paso el tropel de la Gente, siguiendo la Victoria, no huvo quien se lo impidiese; de manera que dexaron en cueros a todos los caidos." Zarate, Conq. del Peru, ...

— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott

... beaten it. And I am appreciated. The Government of Victoria has just raised the price of my head ...

— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson

... Reading men perused Hall's and Holinshed's huge black-letter folios in Queen Elizabeth's time with as much interest as they do Macaulay's or Prescott's elegant octavos in the reign of her successor, Victoria. Shakespeare drew again and again upon the former for the material of his historical plays; and in writing "Henry VIII.," he adopted often the very language of the Chronicler. The well-known description of Wolsey, which he puts into ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various

... So I had said to Rufus Blight—almost my last word to him. So I said to myself as I stood by the steamer's rail and looked back to the towering mass of the lower city. That very morning I had seen her: she driving down the Avenue, alone, sitting very straight and still in her victoria; I on the pavement, taking my last walk up-town in the never failing hope to have a glimpse of her. Now, what would I have given not to have yielded to that temptation? She had seen me. I halted sharply and raised my hat, thinking that she might stop to say good-by, for she knew that I was going ...

— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd

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