victim
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)victims
- an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstanceType of unfortunate, unfortunate personKinds martyr, prey, poor devil, murderee, casualty, punching bag, hunted person, muggee, scapegoat
- a person who is tricked or swindledSynonyms: dupeType of actor, doerKinds chump, lamb, butt, sitting duck
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Translations
Noun one who is harmed
- Spanish
- víctima
- French
- victime
- German
- Opfer
- Italian
- vittima
- Portuguese
- vítima
- Turkish
- kurban
- Russian
- же́ртва žértva
- Arabic
- ضَحِيَّة ḍaḥiyya
- Chinese
- 受害者 shòuhàizhě
- Japanese
- 犠牲者 giseisha
24 more languages
- Dutch
- slachtoffer
- Polish
- ofiara
- Swedish
- offer
- Greek
- θύμα thýma
- Korean
- 희생자 huisaengja
- Vietnamese
- nạn nhân
- Hungarian
- áldozat
- Portuguese (PT)
- vítima
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 受害者 shòuhàizhě
- Catalan
- víctima
- Czech
- oběť
- Danish
- offer
- Esperanto
- viktimo
- Estonian
- ohver
- Finnish
- uhri
- Georgian
- მსხვერპლი msxverṗli
- Icelandic
- þolandi
- Latvian
- upuris
- Lithuanian
- auka
- Norwegian
- offer
- Romanian
- victimă
- Scottish Gaelic
- ìobairteach
- Welsh
- dioddefwr
- Yiddish
- קרבן korbn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. victima: cf. F. victime.
1. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
Led like a victim, to my death I'll go.— John Dryden
2. A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
3. A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
4. Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull. colloquial
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54