Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to the period of the reign of Queen Victoria: a Victorian novel.
- adj. Relating to or displaying the standards or ideals of morality regarded as characteristic of the time of Queen Victoria: Victorian manners.
- adj. Being in the highly ornamented, massive style of architecture, decor, and furnishings popular in 19th-century England.
- n. A person belonging to or exhibiting characteristics typical of the Victorian period.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the reign of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, which began in 1837: as, the Victorian literature; the Victorian crown (see first cut under crown).
- Pertaining to Victoria in Australia
- n. One living in the reign of Queen Victoria, especially an author.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or of that period.
- adj. Of, or displaying the supposed standards or ideals of morality of that period.
- adj. Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
- adj. Of, or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia.
- n. A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
- n. A person from the state of Victoria in Australia
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
- adj. of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled
- adj. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
- adj. exaggeratedly proper
Examples
“VICTORIAN MOTHER'S DAY TEA PARTY, learn the rituals and etiquette of the Victorian era and Queen Victoria's observations on tea and motherhood.”
The Washington Post: Fairfax County community events, May 6 to 13, 2010
“VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS How people from the Victorian era decorated for Christmas, with a tour of the White House of the Confederacy.”
“One of the best historical anthologies has been reprinted with a semi-new title: _The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories_ (Oxford University Press, $17.95), edited by Michael Cox, first published in 1992 as _Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection.”
“It was undertaken after frequent suggestions from readers of Poets of America, and bears to that volume the relation borne by A Victorian Anthology to Victorian Poets.”
0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
“Born and raised in the Anglosphere middle class of the 1890s Dorothy in upstate New York, Rebecca outside London, they decided early on that living authentically meant breaking free of the web of social conventions summed up by the phrase "Victorian morality.”
“I recently encountered the term Victorian "blood" novels, but I am having no luck figuring out what they are.”
“ The term Victorian today sometimes recalls Queen Victorias stands on personal moral issues and may suggest prudery or a moral self-satisfaction.”
“Is the term Victorian here used as a date bracket or a characterisation?”
“It is this reaction I think which accounts for the peculiar sexual mores of what we call the Victorian era in Britain and the United States.”
“The wave of complete materialism which passed over Europe during what we call the Victorian period discouraged any personal investigation of forces beyond what could actually be proved by the senses.”
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