Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low, light four-wheeled carriage for two with a folding top and an elevated driver's seat in front.
- noun A touring car with a folding top usually covering only the rear seat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The twelfth planetoid, discovered by Hind in London in 1850.
- noun [NL. (Lindley, 1838), named after Queen Victoria of England, to whom the first flower which blossomed in cultivation was presented in 1849.] A genus of water-lilies, belonging to the order Nymphæaceæ and tribe Nymphæeæ.
- noun [lowercase] A form of low, light, four-wheeled carriage, having a calash top, with seats for two persons, and an elevated driver's seat in front.
- noun [lowercase] A breed of domestic pigeons, nearly the same as the hyacinth
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Bot.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The
Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet. - proper noun 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.
- proper noun (Astron.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also
Clio . - proper noun One of an American breed of medium-sized white hogs with a slightly dished face and very erect ears.
- proper noun a bronze Maltese cross, awarded for valor to members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of £10 a year.
- proper noun (Chem.) See Emerald green, under
Green . - proper noun (Bot.) the Victoria regia. See def. 1, above.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
carriage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state in southeastern Australia
- noun queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
- noun a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio
- noun port city and the capital of Seychelles
- noun (Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike
- noun capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island
- noun a waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If all of rural victoria is stiched up as well as us Telstra has it made.
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IM australian, i live in victoria/melbourne though i wanna cry, if i had the money i’d fly to SYDNEY right away!!
Twilight Lexicon » Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner Visit Australia 2010
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A victoria is a great big carriage, the back seat, oh, like an umbrella almost over the back seat but it didn't go over the little dickey seat.
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I was sorting out the gifts under the tree, and i saw this 'victoria's secret' bag under the tree and started laughing my head off, and guess what.
yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2007
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Besides most well-known varieties of conveyance the celestial mind has evolved one or two remarkable models of its own, notably, a kind of victoria, the body of which takes the form of two large inverted sea-shells gaudily painted with flowers and butterflies, and running on light iron wheels with bright spokes and rubber tyres.
Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready
chained_bear commented on the word victoria
Usage, as a horse-drawn conveyance, on barouche.
October 22, 2008
dailyword commented on the word victoria
This type of carriage was used a lot in Holmes's time.
September 2, 2012