post-Victorianadj.n.
/ˌpəʊs(t)vɪkˈtɔːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)vɪkˈtɔriən/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the period of time subsequent to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > Victorian
Victorian1839
early Victorian1871
pre-Victorian1887
middle Victorian1896
post-Victorian1912
neo-Victorian1940
1912 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 18 May 8/3 When one reads of the return of Mrs. Keppel to London and the reception that she gave to her friends one has reason to feel that after all it is not such a great gulf that separates the Stuart Court from the post-Victorian.
1938 H. Palmer Post-Victorian Poetry p. ix Because of the amount of space that has been taken up by the verse dating from 1900..the subject-matter seems to justify the selection of the title, Post-Victorian Poetry.
1970 E. M. Brecher Sex Researchers iv. 98 By a delicate turn of phrase, van de Velde awards his post-Victorian nihil obstat to the practice of soixante-neuf.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 May 28/4 We are..shown how seventeenth-century Latin translations of Old Norse-Icelandic texts led to.., in the post-Victorian era, the German fascination with ‘Wotanism’.
B. n.
A person living in the post-Victorian era.
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the world > people > person > [noun] > living in specific era
Elizabethan1859
Jacobean1885
Georgian1891
post-Victorian1914
Edwardian1920
Carolean1927
the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > Victorian era > one who lived in
early Victorian1871
Victorian1876
middle Victorian1896
post-Victorian1914
mid-Victorian1918
1914 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 12 Aug. 8/5 Every book which inspired the Mid-Victorians is ‘outworn’, it is ‘a back number’ to the Post-Victorians.
1922 Times 9 May 16/2 This very week, I saw one [friend] who is of this age as indubitably as any post-Victorian.
1991 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 63 672 The question was not simply what our post-Victorians ‘knew’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1912