victor English
Noun
( en noun)
The winner in a fight or contest.
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The letter V in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
Synonyms
* winner
* conqueror
Derived terms
* victorious adjective
* victory noun
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anthony English
Alternative forms
* Antony
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
- "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
* 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
- She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"
A city in Kansas
A city in New Mexico
A town in Texas
Related terms
* (pet forms) Tony, Ant
* (variants) Antonio, Antoine, Anton
* (feminine names) Antonia, Antoinette, Toni, Tonia, Tonya
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