Victoria vs Emily - What's the difference?
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(Roman god) The Roman goddess of victory; equivalent to the Greek goddess Nike.
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* 1838 , Court and Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign , April 1838, pages 512-513:
*:: * George IV., who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
* 1985 Dan Simmons: Song of Kali : ISBN 031286583X pages 4, 17:
One of the six states of Australia, situated in the south-eastern part of the continent, with its capital at Melbourne.
(historical, Australia) The British colony in what is now the Australian state of Victoria.
The capital of Seychelles.
Provincial capital of British Columbia (Canada).
A rural municipality in Manitoba
Main town of the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia).
Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.
The City of Victoria, a settlement in Hong Kong often referred to as its capital
A town in Grenada
A city in Texas
(label) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
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* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
* 1830 (Mary Russell Mitford), Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
* 2010 (Joanne Harris), blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
As a noun victoria
is victory.As an initialism emily is
(us|politics) early money is like yeast (ie it "raises dough", or makes money): receiving many donations early in a political race helps to attract further donors.victoria
English
(wikipedia Victoria)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Alexander of Russia, the patron saint of the Cobourgs, was dead, so Alexandrina of England, named in honour of him, gave way to Victoria' the tutelary deity of his (when living) subservient Cobourgs. Both names are alike foreign and unharmonious to British ears,* although of the two, Alexandrina perhaps the most euphonious. Let us hope, and we have reason to hope, that the Queen will nationalize that of ' Victoria , and make it the theme of song and history with that of Elizabeth.
- When I had first told him the name we'd chosen for our daughter, Abe had suggested that it was a pretty damn waspy title for the offspring of an Indian princess and a Chicago pollock.- - -
- I never would have chosen the name "Victoria'" but was secretly delighted by it. Amrita first suggested it one hot day in July and we treated it as a joke. It seemed that one of her earliest memories was of arriving by train at '''Victoria''' Station in Bombay. That huge edifice - one of the remnants of the British Raj, which evidently still defines India - had always filled Amrita with a sense of awe. Since that time, the name ' Victoria had evoked an echo of beauty, elegance and mystery in her.
Derived terms
* Victoria Day * VIC / Vic / (abbreviation)See also
* (Queen Victoria)emily
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- I am thy mortal foe, and it am I
- That so hot loveth Emily the bright,
- That I would die here present in her sight.
- People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily', in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming ' Emilys
- This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily , a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights , so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
- Emily . Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours — whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses —