Dictionary Definition
victim
Noun
1 an unfortunate person who suffers from some
adverse circumstance
2 a person who is tricked or swindled [syn:
dupe]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
from the Latin victima, sacrificial animalPronunciation
Noun
- italbrac original sense A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
- Anyone who is physically harmed by another.
- An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.)
- A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
- An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
- Narratology. A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.
Translations
a living creature which is slain and offered as
human or animal sacrifice
- Croatian: žrtva
- Czech: oběť
- Danish : offer, slagteoffer
- Russian: жертва
- Spanish: víctima
anyone who is physically harmed by another
- Croatian: žrtva
- Danish : offer
- Hungarian: áldozat
- Russian: жертва
- Spanish: víctima
an aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime
- Croatian: žrtva
- Czech: oběť
- Danish : offer
- Russian: жертва
- Spanish: víctima
a person who suffers any other injury, loss, or
damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking
- Croatian: žrtva
- Danish : offer
- Russian: жертва
- Spanish: víctima
an unfortunate person who suffers from a
disaster or other adverse circumstance
- Croatian: žrtva
- Danish : offer
- Russian: жертва
- Spanish: víctima
(Narratology) a character who is conquered or
manipulated by a villain
- Croatian: žrtva
- Danish : offer
- Russian: жертва
- Spanish: víctima
Extensive Definition
Victim or victims may refer to:
- in criminology, the victim of a crime.
- in forensics, the name (VICTIMS) of the National Database for Unidentified Human Remains in the United States
- in religion, an animal sacrifice or human sacrifice (see weoh)
- in psychotherapy, a posited role in the Karpman drama triangle model of transactional analysis
- in New Age contexts, an (undesirable) inferred psychological type/state (see psychologies of victimization)
In literature
- The Victim, a Saul Bellow Jobas novel
In cinema
- Victim, a 1961 film featuring Dirk Bogarde
- The Victim, a 1980 film by Sammo Hung
- The Victim, a 2006 Thai horror-thriller by Monthon Arayangkoon
In music
- The Victims, a punk band from Perth in Western Australia and Southern England.
- Victim, a single by Eighteen Visions
- Victim a song from Kate DeAraugo's album A Place I've Never Been & "A place I've never Seen"
- Victims, a song by the New Wave Band Culture Club
victim in German: Opfer
victim in Latvian: Upuris
victim in Dutch: Offer
victim in Polish: Ofiara
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
also-ran, babe, beasts of venery, big game,
boob, booby, butt, byword, byword of reproach,
casualty, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, defeatee, derision, duck, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings,
fair game, fall guy, figure of fun, fish, fool, game, game loser, gazingstock, goat, gobe-mouches, good loser,
good sport, greener,
greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, hard-luck guy, hardcase, innocent, jest, jestingstock, joke, kill, laughingstock, leadpipe
cinch, loser, mark, martyr, mockery, monkey, object of compassion,
offering, patsy, pigeon, plaything, poor devil, poor
unfortunate, prey, prize
sap, pushover, quarry, sacrifice, sad sack, sap, saphead, scapegoat, schlemiel, schlimazel, sitting duck,
sport, stock, stooge, sucker, sufferer, sure loser, target, the hunted, the
vanquished, toy, trusting
soul, underdog,
unfortunate,
venery, wretch