Victorian English

Meaning Victorian meaning

What does Victorian mean?

Definitions in simple English

Victorian Adjective

— If something is Victorian, it is like something from the time of Queen Victoria I. She was wearing a long, Victorian dress. His Victorian ideals made hims seem out of place in the modern world.

Victorian Noun

— A Victorian is a type of house built in late 1800's, or made to look like it was. I wish I could afford to live in a Victorian. The characters on Charmed were witches and lived in an old Victorian.

— A Victorian is a person from the Victorian era (late 1800's). The Victorians followed codes of conduct that seems very strict today.

victorian

— adjective (= straitlaced) exaggeratedly proper my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts

Victorian

— adjective of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled Victorian morals

— adjective typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

— noun a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

Synonyms Victorian synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Victorian?

Victorian English » English

nineteenth-century

victorian

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tight-laced

straitlaced

strait-laced

straightlaced

straight-laced

square-toed

puritanical

prudish

prissy

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priggish

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Examples Victorian examples

How do I use Victorian in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The apartment was furnished in the Victorian style.

The flat was furnished in the Victorian style.

Women wore corsets during the Victorian era.

The novel takes place in Victorian England.

Movie subtitles

Like a pensive garden lady in a Victorian engraving? Hmm?

I think you take rather a Victorian view of the navy, my dear.

It may seem kind of corny and mid-Victorian, but we tell each other things.

If I seem a bit sinister as a parent, Mr. Marlowe it's because my hold on life is too slight to include any Victorian hypocrisy.

It's obvious. You threw an eggbeater into the wheels of her Victorian household.

It seems awfully mid-Victorian.

Men always want to furnish their studies like Victorian mausoIeums.

And what part have you got in this little Victorian melodrama?

I come from one of those respectable English families. that dragged all the Victorian virtues into the 20th century.

I bet it's miles to a bus. Well, there doesn't seem to appear any Victorian restoration.

The same Victorian hang-up.

The Trench sisters were two proper Victorian ladies.

You don't play some phoney Victorian heavy.

The Middle South Midlands Victorian phase.

Like a pensive garden lady in a Victorian engraving?

And I read every word of it, and I think most of it's mid-Victorian nonsense.

You threw an eggbeater into the wheels of her Victorian household.

For acting like a Victorian fool? For refusing to accept the fact that you have a career? - Oh, darling, do you mean that?

Your husband's a Victorian.

Victorian, you know.

The Trench sisters were two Victorian ladies.

It had been a dignified old Victorian home when Frank and I found it.

Well, he is rather strange, quite Victorian.

You give that simple word a wealth of sinister meaning. that almost brings the Victorian era back into existence.

Well, there doesn't seem to appear any Victorian restoration.

Well, Victorian timepieces are my speciality, Mr. Perry.

You want to play the part of the Victorian grandfather, that's all right by me.

That is impossible, unless Waterfield could have invented a time machine, and he's bringing this stuff back from Victorian times.

Not even Victorian Gothic.

A distinguished victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker.

So, with typical mid-victorian zeal, he set to work.

In a Victorian Gothic folly?

News and current affairs

No, the IPL is the newest Indian innovation revolutionizing that most staid of Victorian sports - cricket.

One British social critic, quoted by the sociologist Dominique Schnapper, compares the behavior of the French, unwilling to mention ethnic discrimination, with English people of the Victorian era, who refused to talk about sex.

The convention of not naming rape accusers is a relic of the Victorian period, when rape and other sex crimes were being codified and reported in ways that prefigure our own era.

We have been there already - indeed, much of what is now being dismantled in Britain was built in the Victorian era because of appalling social conditions for most people.

It is a fear that has echoed down through history ever since, from the Catholic Church cursing Gutenberg's movable type to the Victorian bourgeois complaining of the newly discovered freedom of the press.