Meaning of VICTORIAN
| Pronunciation: | | vik'towreeun
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- [n] a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
- [adj] typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
- [adj] exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- [adj] of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
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| | Synonyms: | | nonmodern, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straightlaced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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| | See Also: | | human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | |
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| | Definition: | | \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
as, the Victorian poets.
{Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under
{Dyonysian}.
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