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Vinony

victoria

noun

  1. a low four-wheeled pleasure carriage for two with a folding top and a raised seat in front for the driver
  2. a touring car with a folding top usually covering only the rear seat
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proper noun

  1. Australian state
  2. Canadian city
  3. female given name
  4. name: given name and family name
  5. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1877-1901)
  6. the de facto capital of Hong Kong during its time as a British dependent territory
  7. capital of Seychelles
  8. city of southeast Texas
  9. river in the Northern Territory
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹi.ə/ / /vɪkˈtɔːɹi.ə/

name

Etymology: From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória. The given name can also be analyzed as the male name Victor + -ia. The places were named in honour of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

  1. The Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.
  2. A female given name from Latin.

    “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.”

    “Riding along the busy, narrow roads of Bali on her scooter with the sun illuminating her face, Victoria Kjos has a clear destination in sight — the beach.”

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    “A mere 150 round-leaf pomaderris were thought left in the world in 2021 and now a planned firebreak in Victoria could destroy dozens of the plants.”

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    “On the 21st of November, the Imperial Chinese Commissioner Keying, arrived at Victoria, Hong Kong, whither he was conveyed in a British Government steamer from Whampoa, the object of his visit being the settlement of matters between the Chinese and British Governments, preparatory to the surrender of Chusan to the Chinese.”

    “Royal Marines, officers and men from the British cruisers Swiftsure and Euryalus have landed in the naval dockyard area at Victoria, Hong Kong, and raised the white ensign.”

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    “London Transport lost no time in beginning work on the new Victoria tube line following the Minister of Transport's approval of the project, announced on August 20.”

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noun

Etymology: Named after Queen Victoria.

  1. 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.

    “It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.”

    “The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.”