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victorian
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun victorian has 1 sense
- victorian(n = noun.person) Array - a person who lived during the reign of Victoria; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
Derived form adjective victorian1
Adjective victorian has 3 senses
- victorian(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals" Derived forms noun victoria1, noun victorian1
- victorian(s = adj.all) priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- victorian(s = adj.all) Array - typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
victorian, a.
Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
victorian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of the time of Queen Victoria.
2 associated with attitudes attributed to this time, esp. of prudery and moral strictness.
--n. a person, esp. a writer, of this time.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of the time of Queen Victoria.
2 associated with attitudes attributed to this time, esp. of prudery and moral strictness.
--n. a person, esp. a writer, of this time.
Derivative
Victorianism n.
THESAURUS
victorian
Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized, genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval, mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned, old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious, smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated
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