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victorious

adj
/vɪkˈtɔːɹiəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin victōriōsus, from victōria (“victory”), from victor (“conqueror”). Displaced native Old English siġefæst.

  1. borrowed from victōriōsus

Definitions

  1. Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.

    • They will not force us, / They will stop degrading us, / They will not control us, / We will be victorious!

  2. Of or expressing a sense of victory or triumph.

    • The team were met with a victorious cheer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at victorious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at victorious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at victorious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA