victorian
IPA: vɪktˈɔriʌn
Root Word: Victorian
noun
- A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period.
- An item of furniture from that period.
- (chiefly US, architecture) A house built in the Victorian architectural style.
- A person from the state of Victoria in Australia.
- (Canada) A person from the city of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada.
adjective
- Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, or that period.
- Of or relating to the culture or social conditions of that period.
- In a situation of poverty and social injustice; Dickensian.
- (architecture) Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
- (figuratively) Of or displaying the (supposed) ideals or standards of morality of that period; conservative; also, old-fashioned, out-of-date.
- Of, or native or relating to, the state of Victoria in Australia.
- (Canada) Of, or native or relating to, the city of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, Canada.
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Examples of "victorian" in Sentences
- The ware is a style of Victorian wood knickknack.
- The Victorian era saw the rise of the penitentiary.
- It was fashionable in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
- The annex will not affect the Victorian displays of the museum.
- In England, the Victorians were extremely prudish about nudity.
- Calisthenics was introduced into Victorian State Schools in the 1930s.
- This developed to the gentlemen in the Victorian era to use the umbrella.
- Fashions in crochet changed with the end of the Victorian era in the 1890s.
- The NSW stretch of the walk is less imaginative then the Victorian section.
- Hysteria was widely discussed in the medical literature of the Victorian era.
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