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victorian

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Victorian  \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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Victorian 
  adj  1:  of  or  relating  to  Queen  Victoria  of  Great  Britain  or  to  the 
  age  in  which  she  ruled;  "Victorian  morals"  [syn:  {Victorian}] 
  2:  exaggeratedly  proper;  "my  straitlaced  Aunt  Anna  doesn't 
  approve  of  my  miniskirts"  [syn:  {priggish},  {prim},  {prissy}, 
  {prudish},  {puritanical},  {square-toed},  {straitlaced},  {straightlaced}, 
  {tight-laced}] 
  3:  typical  of  the  moral  standards  or  conduct  of  the  age  of 
  Victoria 
  n  :  a  person  who  lived  during  the  reign  of  Victoria  [syn:  {Victorian}]




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