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Meaning victory meaning

What does victory mean?
Definitions in simple English

victory

A victory is the act or result of winning. The Korean War had no clear victory.

victory

(= triumph) a successful ending of a struggle or contest a narrow victory the general always gets credit for his army's victory clinched a victory convincing victory the agreement was a triumph for common sense

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Simple sentences

It's an easy victory.
Our victory is secure.
The Party won a sweeping victory at the general election.
The player contributed to the victory.
The victory was won at the cost of many lives.
The victory was dearly won.
Our team was in high spirits because of the victory.
His victory made him a hero.
We paid a heavy price for this victory.
The match ended in victory for him.
Victory is unlikely but not impossible.
The player was pleased with his victory.
The news of her victory will break in the evening paper.
The prospects for our victory are excellent.
We are firmly confident of victory.
They gained a victory.
At last, they experienced the joy of victory.
The victory excited us.

Movie subtitles

It was a hollow victory.
She's labouring under the delusion that her dog stood in the way of my victory, when it's obvious that Pistachio is the superior animal.
He won the victory - the greatest of all victories.
And proudly waving the red flag of victory, without a single shot, the rebellious battleship passed through the rows of the squadron.
Assured of their imminent victory, they begin to celebrate.
His victory will be brief, Ursus!
By a great victory!
And the great victory?
Give every ounce of strength. to win victory before the end of the year.
NOW, GO OUT IN THAT BATTLEFIELD AND LEAD THOSE MEN TO VICTORY.
VICTORY IS OURS!
It holds victory.
Hail Victory.!
Hail Victory!
Ladies and gentlemen, to love and victory!
Almighty and merciful Allah, did not grant me victory.
Victory in Solferino cost thousands of lives.
You are so great, so mighty and strong, so far above me. I have to stretch myself, look, just to look into your eyes, oh, so sure of victory.
Go out on that battlefield and lead those men to victory.
For the great victory you have won, Sweden is grateful.
After such a victory?
God grant you victory, Catherine.
Blown at Waterloo, sounding the charge at Balaklava whistling defiance at Mafeking and the praise of victory at Mons.
Peter Blood, was it you, then, who took this ship and turned defeat into victory?
Meet it, fight it, score the first victory.
I am proud that our nation bears the palm and that this major victory was achieved at the clinic of my great teacher and predecessor Lilienthal.
To victory and defeat and stupid tragic sorrow.
Victory is ours!
To us you were the guarantor of victory.
Hail Victory! Hail Victory! Hail Victory!
I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars. and dreams of victory.
The victory reception is over.

News and current affairs

The outcome was a victory for Turkish democracy and recognized as such internationally.
When geo-strategic military front lines are non-existent, as in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, mass no longer equals victory.
But the objectives of the use of force need to be linked to the recognition that in today's asymmetric conflicts, victory is no longer achieved on the battlefield.
Flags are flown in hope of victory, but also serve to dry the tears of defeat.
It was during Yitzhak Rabin's government in the early 1990's that Israel and Iran entered into open conflict, owing to the changing strategic environment after America's victory in the first Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, America's strategic partnership with Pakistan, where Obama won a significant symbolic victory by eliminating Osama bin Laden, is in tatters.
Since its victory in the Cold War, America's global hegemony has rested on three pillars: economic power, military might, and a vast capacity to export its popular culture.
According to a respected defense industry publication, Sarkozy changed his mind after his party's smaller-than-anticipated victory in June's parliamentary election.
They are also often more focused on the plight of actual people than on the promotion of grand principles, preferring concrete progress to abstract victory.
NEW DELHI - Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere.
During the Cuban missile crisis, he did not try to humiliate or win a total victory over the Soviet Union.
A Republican victory would also most likely lead to a major push to open up many more energy-exploration opportunities within America, which Obama has stymied.
But these criticisms reflect an inability to contemplate the current nature of armed conflict, which no longer follows the classical logic of military victory or defeat.
Pheu Thai's victory thus suggests that a previously marginalized electorate has been permanently awakened.
In our global war on AIDS, the international community is on the verge of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
But his latest victory does not answer the question of what will happen when he finally does leave the political scene.
Under Arafat's long rule, whole generations of Palestinians have been indoctrinated with the belief that only total victory is acceptable.
Arafat's legacy is thus a political culture in which a leader may portray a disastrous tactic, strategy, or outcome as a victory and be believed.
After pro-reform forces secured victory in last year's presidential elections, all of the branches of government began cooperating to entrench democracy and the market economy in Ukraine.
OSAKA - Yesterday's landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.
High levels of disenfranchisement in Florida likely played a critical role in the much-disputed electoral victory of President Bush.
A year ago, after the blitz victory in the four-week Iraq War, many people thought the issue was settled.
The US is the only country with large state of the art air, naval, and ground forces capable of global deployment - thus, the quick victory in Iraq last year.
Conversely, Ronald Reagan's performance in his debate with Carter in 1980 is often credited with his victory.
A compromise would allow both parties to declare partial victory, for it would likely entail commitments to cut spending and some steps to make taxation more socially just.
But progress is not to be confused with victory.
Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP's nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.
Although these criticisms don't seem to bother the electorate very much, Park's path to victory may yet prove narrower than her supporters expect.
After all, Obama's victory on the nuclear deal may have been inevitable, but it was far from easy.

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