victory

Etymology 1

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 French victoire), from Latin victōria (“victory”), from victor (“champion, winner, victor; conqueror, vanquisher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to contain, envelop; to overcome”)) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as victor + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state), and displaced Middle English siȝe, sye. The interjection is derived from the noun. cognates * French victoire * Italian vittoria * Portuguese vitoria * Spanish victoria * Romanian victorie

noun

1. (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
   It was a great victory on the battlefield.
   Already there are certain signs that politicians within the Republican party are suffering from the intoxication of too much victory. 1921, The Pottery & Glass Salesman, volume 24, New York, N.Y.: O’Gorman Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 75
   England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday. 12 November 2011, Phil McNulty, “International Friendly: England 1 – 0 Spain”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2022-08-13
2. (Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”)

intj

1. Used to encourage someone to achieve success, or to celebrate a success or triumph.

Etymology 2

From Middle English victorien (“to overcome, vanquish”), from Old French victorier, or from Medieval Latin victōriāre, from Latin victōria (noun); see further at etymology 1. cognates * Italian vittoriare

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete or rare) To defeat or triumph over (someone or something).
   [W]hen ſin got the upper hand of us, and vvee victoried by them; vve vvere then their ſervants, their ſlave: vvhen vvee overcome and have victoried them; let us make them our ſlaves perpetually; let us bind them in chaines, caſt them in priſon, and for ever utterly deſtroy their evill povver: […] 1639, John Welles, “Of Mortification”, in The Soules Progresse to the Celestiall Canaan, or Heavenly Jerusalem.[…], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] and are to be sold by Henry Shephard[…], →OCLC, 2nd part, page 245