victoria

plural victorias

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.

   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.

   1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42

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   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.

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6

plural Victorias · plural Victoriae

1. Romancountableuncountablehuman sciencesThe Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike.

   Synonyms: Victory

2. countableuncountableA female given name from Latin.

   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.

   2025 July 31, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “‘Everyone I know in the US who has a conscience wants to leave’: Why this American woman relocated to Bali”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025

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   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.

   1985, Dan Simmons, Song of Kali, →ISBN, pages 4, 17

3. Numerous places:
   1. countableuncountableA state of Australia, located in the southeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1851 to 1901. Capital: Melbourne.

      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.

      2025 September 3, Graham Readfearn, “There are just 150 of these creamy-flowered shrubs left in the world – and a Victorian fire break could destroy dozens”, in The Guardian

   2. countableuncountableA city, the capital of Seychelles.
   3. countableuncountableA city, the capital of British Columbia.
   4. countableuncountableA rural municipality of Manitoba.
   5. countableuncountableA town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
   6. countableuncountableA community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
   7. countableuncountableA commune and city in Chile.
   8. countableuncountableA former department of Chile.
   9. countableuncountableThe main town of the federal territory of Labuan, Malaysia.
   10. countableuncountableA town and local council, the capital of the Gozo Region.
   11. countableuncountableA settlement in Hong Kong, often referred to as its capital; in full, the City of Victoria.

       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.

       1945 September 2 [1945 September 1], en, “BRITISH UNITS TAKE PART OF HONG KONG; But Admiral Is Unable to Find Japanese Commander for the Surrender Ceremony”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2023, page 12

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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.

       1846 March 20, “FROM CHINA.”, in Christian Watchman, volume XXVII, number 12, Boston, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 3

       I eased into the cut-rate canyon by taxiing around Hong Kong -- both the island and the Kowloon peninsula -- to orient myself. The major shopping district is as difficult to grasp initially as its tongue-tripping name, Tsimshatsui. This is in Kowloon, across the harbor from Victoria, Hong Kong's major business section, which also is chocked with shopping opportunities. The Star Ferry tootles between the two cities.

       1988 April 17, Marsha Dubrow, “HONG KONG”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2023

       He was forty-two years old when he died and has no known grave, but his name can be seen on the Hong Kong Memorial at the entrance to the Botanic Gardens in Victoria, Hong Kong.

       2009, Robyn Walker, “Gander Gets His Medal”, in Sergeant Gander: A Canadian Hero, Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72

   12. countableuncountableA town in Grenada.
   13. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Victoria County, Texas.
   14. countableuncountableA town in Lunenburg County, Virginia, named after Queen Victoria.
   15. countableuncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Victoria Township.
   16. countableuncountableA hamlet in Roche parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9861).
   17. countableuncountableA large railway terminus in central London.
   18. countableuncountableA hamlet in Dunford parish, Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, on the West Yorkshire boundary and probably named after the Victoria Inn (OS grid ref SE1705)
   19. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Victoria Line of the London Underground.

       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.

       1962 October, “London gets its Victoria tube”, in Modern Railways, page 256

   20. countableuncountableA community and ward in Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST315880).
   21. countableuncountableA suburban area in Cwm community, Blaenau Gwent borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO1706).
   22. countableuncountableA town in Cabañas department, El Salvador.
   23. countableuncountableA municipality of Laguna.
   24. countableuncountableA municipality of Northern Samar.
   25. countableuncountableA municipality of Tarlac.
   26. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Lake Victoria: the largest lake in Africa.
   27. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Victoria County.
   28. countableuncountableastronomyA large main-belt asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, the Solar System.

       Synonyms: Asteroid Victoria

plural Victorias

1. One of an American breed of medium-sized white pigs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
2. A Victoria plum.

   Pears are practically a failure, and there are no early or late Plums, but Victorias are a heavy crop, of small inferior fruits.

   1916, The Gardeners' Chronicle

3. slangvagina

   Synonyms: axe wound, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, box, bun, bush