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victor
1[ vik-ter ]
noun
- a person who has overcome or defeated an adversary; conqueror.
- a winner in any struggle or contest.
- a word used in communications to represent the letter V.
Victor
2[ vik-ter ]
noun
- an ancient Roman epithet variously applied to Jupiter, Mars, and Hercules.
- Military. the NATO name for a class of high-speed, nuclear-powered submarines, designed to protect Soviet ships and to attack ballistic-missile submarines: first produced for the Soviet Navy in the 1960s; in service with the Russian Navy since 1992.
- a male given name.
victor
1/ ˈvɪktə /
noun
- a person, nation, etc, that has defeated an adversary in war, etc
- ( as modifier )
the victor army
- the winner of any contest, conflict, or struggle
Victor
2/ ˈvɪktə /
noun
- communications a code word for the letter v
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of victor1
Idioms and Phrases
see to the victor belong the spoils .Example Sentences
“He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email.
A Spaniard by birth, Victor Serna left home shy of his 14th birthday and entered the monastery to become a Marist brother.
Brother Victor had taught my brother, Jeff, the previous year with far greater success.
The United States emerged as the true victor of World War I in every sense: militarily, economically and morally.
He was the chief of staff of ousted Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych.
Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.
Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.
To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.
Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
Several persons were talking at once, and Victor's voice was predominating, even over that of his mother.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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