Victoria
WordNet
noun
(1) Capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island
(2) A state in southeastern Australia
(3) Port city and the capital of Seychelles
(4) A town in southeast Texas southeast of San Antonio
(5) A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally
(6) (Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike
(7) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
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Proper noun
- A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).
- One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
- The capital of Seychelles.
- Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
- Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
- Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.
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Quotations
- 1985 Dan Simmons: Song of Kali: ISBN 031286583X pages 4, 17:
- 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.