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VICTORIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
provincial capital (the capital city of a province)
Holonyms ("Victoria" is a part of...):
British Columbia (a province in western Canada)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state in southeastern Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)
Meronyms (parts of "Victoria"):
Melbourne (the capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center)
Holonyms ("Victoria" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Port city and the capital of Seychelles
Synonyms:
capital of Seychelles; Victoria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Victoria" is a part of...):
Republic of Seychelles; Seychelles (a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Victoria" is a part of...):
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally
Synonyms:
Victoria; Victoria Falls
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
falls; waterfall (a steep descent of the water of a river)
Holonyms ("Victoria" is a part of...):
Northern Rhodesia; Republic of Zambia; Zambia (a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964)
Republic of Zimbabwe; Rhodesia; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe (a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980)
Zambezi; Zambezi River (an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Domain category:
Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
Synonyms:
Queen Victoria; Victoria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
empress (a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor)
Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)
Holonyms ("Victoria" is a member of...):
Hanover; Hanoverian line; House of Hanover (the English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria))
Derivation:
Victorian (of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled)
Context examples:
This is Clapham Junction, if I am not mistaken, and we shall be in Victoria in less than ten minutes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“This is a map of the Colony of Victoria,” he said. “I wired to Bristol for it last night.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That would significantly affect the economic resources supplied by the lake and the livelihoods of approximately 40 million people living in the Lake Victoria Basin.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
‘If you walk on a mile or so to Clapham Junction,’ said he, ‘you’ll just be in time for the last to Victoria.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive who had known dad in the old days in Victoria.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Using ancient sediment from outcrops along the edge of the lake, Emily Beverly, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Houston, along with researchers at Baylor University, generated a water-budget model to see how Lake Victoria's levels respond to changes in evaporation, temperature, rainfall and solar energy.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
They have evidently taken the precaution of watching you, however, and that is what has brought Moriarty to Victoria.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In Victoria!
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings by a team led by University of Houston researchers.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
