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Victoria   /vɪktˈɔriə/   Listen
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Victoria  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
2.
A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
3.
(Astron.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; called also Clio.
4.
One of an American breed of medium-sized white hogs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
Victoria cross, a bronze Maltese cross, awarded for valor to members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of £10 a year.
Victoria green. (Chem.) See Emerald green, under Green.
Victoria lily (Bot.), the Victoria regia. See def. 1, above.






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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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