victorious
adjective
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Definition of victorious
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Examples of victorious in a Sentence
They were victorious over their enemies.
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Perhaps telling of his influence, Hrubesch did not start in Hamburg's European Cup final defeat to Nottingham Forest in 1980, but would play the full 90 minutes in their victorious campaign under Happel three years later. — SI.com, "Ernst Happel: The Austrian Mastermind's Best All-Time XI," 8 Aug. 2019 Mahrez made only 14 starts in City’s victorious Premier League campaign. — Rory Smith, New York Times, "Manchester City Looks Unbeatable. These Coaches Know It’s Not.," 8 Aug. 2019 Even in a victorious campaign, Trump might lose the popular vote by as much as 5 million votes, estimates Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. — David Lauter, latimes.com, "Even as its kickoff, Trump's reelection campaign aims to win without a majority," 20 June 2019 In 1977, singer Anita Bryant led a victorious campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Florida barring anti-gay discrimination. — Washington Post, "50 years after Stonewall, LGBT rights are a work in progress," 17 June 2019 Republican Marsha Blackburn’s victorious Senate campaign was backed by $2.5 million in spending by the NRA. — Reid J. Epstein, WSJ, "Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades," 9 Nov. 2018 This season, Liverpool's front three of Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino have scored a record 29 goals, eclipsing the previous best of 28 set by Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema during Real's victorious 2013-14 campaign. — CNN, "Real Madrid face Liverpool for historic third straight Champions League title," 25 May 2018 The same year, a victorious Senate campaign cost around $10.4 million. — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, "“I Am Those People”," 20 Apr. 2018 None of the other incumbent presidents who ran for re-election in that time and were victorious (Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and Obama) were forced to deal with a recession in the run-up to the election. — Ben Carlson, Fortune, "Does the Stock Market Have a Say in the Presidential Election?," 6 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'victorious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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victorious
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of victorious
: having won a victory or having ended in a victory
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victorious
adjective
vic·to·ri·ous
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Kids Definition of victorious
: having won a victory
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