victorian

Noun · Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a person who lived during the reign of VictoriaSynonyms: Victorian

Adjective (3)

  1. of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled“Victorian morals”Synonyms: Victorian
  2. exaggeratedly proper“my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts”Synonyms: priggishprimprissyprudishpuritanicalsquare-toedstraitlacedstrait-lacedstraightlacedstraight-lacedtight-laced
  3. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen VictoriaSynonyms: Victorian
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]


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]

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