0 the winner of a game, competition, election, war, etc.: --
The victor in/of the 1960 US presidential election was John F. Kennedy.
1 the one who wins a competition, election, war, etc.: --
The victor in the 1996 presidential election was Bill Clinton.
Conventional victim/victor positions are skewed and, in effect, very nearly switched.
Oral traditions describe how an enemy, once defeated in conflict, could then join together with the victor against a third opponent.
Wars between rival kings were often concluded with the defeated house offering women in marriage to the victors.
Historically, the victors in war appropriated cultural property as an accepted and often expected practice, though in varying degrees.
The fact that there has been no war and thus neither victors nor vanquished in the last two years has created a novel situation.
The victor, victorious coalition, or international hegemonic culture, meanwhile, prevails, permeating the values and norms of the domestic system of the vanguished.
She guides the nation to victor y even as she demonstrates how to sustain the national hearth and home.
Suppose it turns out that what he did in fact leads him to swift victor y and that he planned it that way.