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Victorian

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Noun

1. victorian

a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

Adjective

2. victorian

of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled

Example Sentences:
'Victorian morals'

3. priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian

exaggeratedly proper

Example Sentences:
'my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts'

4. victorian

typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Victorian

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adjective
1. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of Queen Victoria or the period of her reign
2. 
exhibiting the characteristics popularly attributed to the Victorians, esp prudery, bigotry, or hypocrisy
Compare Victorian values
3. 
denoting, relating to, or having the style of architecture used in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, characterized by massive construction and elaborate ornamentation
4. 
of or relating to Victoria (the state or any of the cities)
noun
5. 
a person who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria
6. 
an inhabitant of Victoria (the state or any of the cities)

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Victorian

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adjective
1. 
of or characteristic of the period of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
2. 
showing the middle-class respectability, prudery, bigotry, etc. generally attributed to Victorian England
3. 
designating or of a style of architecture, decorations, and furnishings of the 19th cent., characterized by massiveness, flowery carving, and ornate design
noun
4. 
a person of the time of Queen Victoria

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Victorian

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n.
A person belonging to or exhibiting characteristics typical of the Victorian period.
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or belonging to the period of the reign of Queen Victoria: a Victorian novel.
2. Relating to or displaying the standards or ideals of morality regarded as characteristic of the time of Queen Victoria: Victorian manners.
3. Being in the highly ornamented, eclectic style of architecture, decor, and furnishings popular in 19th-century England.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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