VICTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does victor mean? 

• VICTOR (noun)
  The noun VICTOR has 2 senses:

1. a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

2. the contestant who wins the contest

  Familiarity information: VICTOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A combatant who is able to defeat rivals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

master; superior; victor

Hypernyms ("victor" is a kind of...):

battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "victor"):

conqueror; vanquisher (someone who is victorious by force of arms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The contestant who wins the contest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

victor; winner

Hypernyms ("victor" is a kind of...):

contestant (a person who participates in competitions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "victor"):

contestee (a winner (of a race or an election etc.) whose victory is contested)

medalist; medallist (someone who has won a medal)

upsetter (an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor)

walloper (a winner by a wide margin)

 Context examples 

Victor says that he knows who was the murderer of poor William.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A course between such men would have been enough in itself to cause the keenest interest, apart from its being the crisis which would decide who should be the victors of the day.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Victor Trevor sank his face into his shaking hands.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shouts of applause went up for the victor, and there were many cries of "Cherokee!" "Cherokee!"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Their verses abound very much in both of these, and usually contain either some exalted notions of friendship and benevolence or the praises of those who were victors in races and other bodily exercises.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But there was little rest for the victors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beauty Smith had estimated his powers well, for he was invariably the victor.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Victor, he is murdered!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Four times a year the youth of a certain district meet to show their proficiency in running and leaping, and other feats of strength and agility; where the victor is rewarded with a song in his or her praise.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He who carries himself best of the victors hath the prize, and he who is judged best of the other party hath a jewelled clasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)