the ancient Roman goddess of victory, identified with the Greek goddess Nike.
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1819–1901, queen of Great Britain 1837–1901; empress of India 1876–1901.
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Gua⋅da⋅lupe /ˌgwɑdlˈup,-ˈupi;Sp.ˌgwɑðɑˈlupɛ/Show Spelled Pronunciation[gwahd-l-oop,-oo-pee;Sp.gwah-thah-loo-pe]Show IPA Pronunciation(Manuel Félix Fernández), 1789–1843, Mexican military and political leader: first president of the republic 1824–29.
Also called Hong Kong, Xianggang.a seaport in and the capital of the Hong Kong colony, on the N coast of Hong Kong island, facing the seaport of Kowloon. 1,100,000.
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a state in SE Australia. 3,832,443; 87,884 sq. mi. (227,620 sq. km). Capital:Melbourne.
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a seaport in and the capital of British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, in SW Canada. 62,551.
a port in and the capital of the Seychelles. 13,736.
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nza.a lake in E central Africa, in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya: second largest freshwater lake in the world; source of the White Nile. 26,828 sq. mi. (69,485 sq. km).
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Mount, a mountain on E New Guinea, in SE Papua New Guinea, in the Owen Stanley Range. 13,240 ft. (4036 m).
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(lowercase) a low, light, four-wheeled carriage with a calash top, a seat for two passengers, and a perch in front for the driver.
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(lowercase) an open touring car having a folding top that usually covers only the rear seat.
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(lowercase) any of several large-leaved water lilies of the genus Victoria.Compare royal water lily.
done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
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kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.
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faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.
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designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.
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secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.
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beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
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(of information, a document, etc.)
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bearing the classification secret.
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limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
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something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
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a mystery: the secrets of nature.
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a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
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a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
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a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification(def. 5).
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(initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
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in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
Australian ballot the system of voting in which voters mark their choices in privacy on uniform ballots printed and distributed by the government or designate their choices by some other secret means. Victoria and ...
election Once suffrage rights had been extended to masses of voters who, in theory, were assumed to be equal, open voting was no longer tolerable, precisely because it could and often did involve undue ...
Banks, Tyra Supermodel Tyra Banks, the host and executive producer of America's Next Top Model-a weekly prime-time reality talent show that chronicled the search for a promising fashion model from a lineup of ...
Victoria Attracted by Albert's good looks and encouraged by her uncle Leopold, Victoria proposed to her cousin on Oct. 15, 1839, just five days after he had arrived at Windsor on a visit to the English court. ...
Hibbert, Eleanor Alice (VICTORIA HOLT; JEAN PLAIDY), British novelist (b. 1906/1910?, London, England--d. Jan. 18, 1993, at sea between Athens, Greece, and Port Said, Egypt), published more than 200 popular romance novels ...
Meissen porcelain German hard-paste, or true, porcelain produced at the Meissen factory, near Dresden in Saxony (now Germany), from 1710 until the present day. It was the first successfully produced true porcelain in ...
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton When Livingstone died in 1873, Stanley resolved to take up the exploration of Africa where he had left off. The problem of the Nile sources and the nature of the central African lakes had been only ...
Victoria After Albert's death Victoria descended into deep depression-"those paroxysms of despair and yearning and longing and of daily, nightly longing to diefor the first three years never left me." Even ...
Victoria Victoria's basic government structure-established as an act of British Parliament in the state's constitution of 1855 and reaffirmed with declaration of the constitution as an act of the Parliament ...
Civil List in the United Kingdom, the list of sums appropriated annually by Parliament to pay the expenses of the sovereign and his or her household. The sums are charged to the government's Consolidated Fund ...
POPSUGAR - Insanely addictive. - Found Dec. 28, 2008 Jennifer Lopez finished up her holiday shopping earlier this week, this time stopping by Victoria's Secret in LA.
IGN.com UK - Found 48 minutes ago It tells a solid story, even if Crystal finds herself in some deeply awkward Victoria's Secret model poses from time to time.
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Globe and Mail - Found 1 hour ago ... has happened since Benjamin Disraeli last took tea with Queen Victoria. ... choosing a Liberal-NDP government supported by a secret protocol ...
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