Victory

See also: victory

English

Proper noun

Victory (countable and uncountable, plural Victorys or Victories)

1. (uncountable) The 48th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
2. A surname.
3. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Synonym of Victoria (“the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike”); also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman.
   • 1841, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Mr. Titmarsh to Miss Smith on the Second Funeral of Napoleon. Letter III. The Funeral Ceremony.”, in The Second Funeral of Napoleon: […] And The Chronicle of the Drum. […], London: Hugh Cunningham, […], →OCLC, page 63:

     All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.

   • 1953, Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, pages 475–476:

     The two reverse groupings which originate on sestertii of Hadrian (BMCCRE III, pl. 79, 7), continue through the coinage of Caracalla, and show Victory floating or standing to the left or right with a standard or trophy held crosswise and extended in the hands are nothing more than the translations of similarly arranged Victoriae from the spandrels of triumphal arches to coin reverses.

   • 1974, The Goddess Roma in the Art of the Roman Empire, page 44:

     Behind Roma seated with Victoriola on the exten ded^[sic] hand a full-sized Victory approaches from the right with crown and palm.

   • 1993, Duncan Fishwick, “The Twin Victories”, in The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, 2nd edition, volume I,1, E.J. Brill, →ISBN, book I, chapter “Roma et Augustus”, subchapter “The Altar of the Three Gauls”, pages 111–112:

     We know from Dio that, when the Curia Iulia, begun by Caesar in 44 B.C., was finally dedicated in 29 B.C., Octavian set up a statue of Victory beside the altar of Victoria which he also dedicated there (51, 22, 2). […] The type, which inspired innumerable copies, appears on coins by 31 B.C., if not earlier, and shows such a Victory holding in the right hand a wreath and in the left a palm branch, occasionally other attributes. Four years later, when Augustus received the clupeus virtutis, this was placed near the statue of Victory in the Curia Iulia. […] The fact that there are two Victories at Lugdunum raises a different question, however.

4. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Cayuga County, New York.
   2. A village in Saratoga County, New York.
   3. A neighbourhood of Camden, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
   4. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
   5. A town in Essex County, Vermont.
   6. An unincorporated community in Wheatland, Vernon County, Wisconsin.
5. The Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226, a rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada.
6. A volcano in Papua New Guinea, also known as Mount Victory.

Alternative forms

• (Roman goddess): victory

Synonyms

• (sura): Conquest

Translations

48th sura of the Qur'an

• Arabic: سورة الفتح
• Turkish: Fetih Suresi
• Uyghur: پەتىھ (petih)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Victory is the 12467th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2490 individuals. Victory is most common among White (79.16%) individuals.