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# victory

«victory» in Mova's school dictionary: **winning a game, race, contest, battle or war** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a victory, victories; victory, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A victory is winning a game, race, contest, battle or war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#m1)

2) Victory is success in a struggle against something difficult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport and PE, a victory is a win for a team. In history, victories end battles and wars. In stories, the hero's victory over the villain is the happy ending. Phrases: «win a victory», «a victory over», «victory for», «a narrow victory», «victory lap».

### examples

- Our team celebrated its first victory of the season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x1)
- The knight won a great victory over the dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x2)
- It was a narrow victory: 3 goals to 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x3)
- The runner did a victory lap of the track. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x4)
- Learning to swim was a victory for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x5)
- The soldiers cheered at the news of victory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x6)
- We won 10–4, so our victory was by 6 points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x7)
- It was he, not I, who gained the victory.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a victory, victories» (y changes to ies). Adjective: «victorious»; a winner is a «victor». In maths, the margin of victory is the difference between the two scores.

### In the corpora

- [Priya won and did a long victory dance right in front of the TV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers/16/)
- [And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.215/)
- [And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.224/)
- [Who hath raised up one from the east, at whose steps victory attendeth?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.874/)
- [The LORD hath brought forth our victory; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1387/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «victory» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/victory/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.