VICTORIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does victorious mean? 

• VICTORIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective VICTORIOUS has 2 senses:

1. having won

2. experiencing triumph

  Familiarity information: VICTORIOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VICTORIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having won

Synonyms:

victorious; winning

Context example:

the winning team

Similar:

successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)

Derivation:

victory (a successful ending of a struggle or contest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Experiencing triumph

Synonyms:

triumphant; victorious

Similar:

undefeated (victorious)

Derivation:

victory (a successful ending of a struggle or contest)

 Context examples 

Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Or any other man who ever bent a long-bow,” cried his victorious adversary.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.

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

At the end of the victorious campaign the surviving ape-folk were driven across the plateau (their wailings were horrible) and established in the neighborhood of the Indian caves, where they would, from now onwards, be a servile race under the eyes of their masters.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.'

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

'Alas, my cruel fate condemns me to remain here till my tyrant is destroyed.' 'Where is the villain?' 'In the mauve salon. Go, brave heart, and save me from despair.' 'I obey, and return victorious or dead!'

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Instantly, Sir What's-his-name recovered himself, pitched the tyrant out of the window, and turned to join the lady, victorious, but with a bump on his brow, found the door locked, tore up the curtains, made a rope ladder, got halfway down when the ladder broke, and he went headfirst into the moat, sixty feet below.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)