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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who lived during the reign of Victoria;


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled;
- Example: "Victorian morals"

2. exaggeratedly proper;
- Example: "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
[syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]

3. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj. 1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum; fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal), stodgy old-fashioned; medieval, mediaeval, gothic; old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian; old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old, past. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. [1913 Webster] Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under Dyonysian. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Victorian adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals" 2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight- laced, victorian] 3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria n 1: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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