Victoria
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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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  1. A monarch named Queen Victoria, especially Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (reigned 1837-1901).
  2. One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
  3. The capital of Seychelles.
  4. Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
  5. Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
  6. 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.
 
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