Victorian1 adjectiveVictorian2 noun
VictorianVic‧to‧ri‧an1 /vɪkˈtɔːriən/ adjective 
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- Victorian architecture
- After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women.
- Although the old Victorian building with its spine of hutted wards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.
- Built in 1872, the Victorian prison has had its fair share of history.
- Costing about £150,000, the exhibition traces the development of trams in towns and cities throughout Britain from the Victorian era.
- It may be a Victorian attitude, but we live off income, not capital.
- Its old courthouse, streets lined with Victorian homes and town square scream heartland.
- The flapper rebelled not only against Victorian manners and morality but against the body that went with it.
- The same story of crumbling Victorian buildings, tunnels, pipes and walls is being repeated in all Britain's major cities.
WORD SETS► History
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the Victorian age
1relating to or coming from the period from 1837–1901 when Victoria was Queen of England: (=the period 1837–1901 when Victoria was queen of England)
► the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era· a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era
► a Georgian/Victorian/Edwardian etc house (=a house in Britain that was built during the reign of a particular king or queen)· They live in a lovely old Edwardian house with high ceilings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► age· The Victorian age was not simply one of progress, measured in terms of population growth and economic activity.· Women who would be considered twenty to forty pounds over-weight today were just fine by the standards of the late Victorian age.· But that's where the Victorian age ends.· Such settlements were profoundly characteristic of the Victorian age.· The Victorian Age None the less, the Otmoor riots mark the end of an era of open conflict on the wetlands.· Where I think the problem lies is that the Victorian age was one which stressed personal salvation and the individual soul.· As the Victorian age got under way, ever more ingenious technologies aided the steady advance of drainage.
► building· On Monday a few hundred gathered among the Victorian buildings of the city's George Square to mount a vigil.· Although the old Victorian building with its spine of hutted wards was a vaguely familiar place, it was by no means home.· These achievements are marked by gilded plaques fixed to wooden replicas of the cast-iron pillars which held up Victorian buildings.· Downstream lies Freemantle, the seaport with restored colonial-style Victorian buildings.· A massive, grey stone Victorian building, it housed over 1600 inmates, twice its allotted amount.· The same story of crumbling Victorian buildings, tunnels, pipes and walls is being repeated in all Britain's major cities.· There are many impressive Victorian buildings here in Hebden Bridge.
► city· It need not surprise anybody that Victorian cities were unhealthy places.· Birmingham had a far greater diversity of occupation than Manchester and indeed than most other Victorian cities.
► era· That Angus Wilson respected the baggy monsters of the Victorian era is unquestionable.· Skirt lengths rose again, but dropped quickly by the end of the 1800s in the Victorian era.· Costing about £150,000, the exhibition traces the development of trams in towns and cities throughout Britain from the Victorian era.· The Victorian era comes down to us today mired in images of distance and reserve.· The Castillane Restaurant, four bars, all of which recapture the splendour of the Victorian era.· Photography not only developed in the Victorian era but was also implicitly caught up in nineteenth-century interests and attitudes.· The fashion for black and white dates from the Victorian era.· At the beginning of the Victorian era, family property usually meant land.
► family· It conjures up images of Victorian family evenings round the piano.· The Victorian family was the first family form in history which was both long-lasting and intimate.· In the tightly-knit Victorian family, this prospect of permanent separation was more terrible than death itself.· It was a large Victorian family kitchen, and looked so when it was empty or when only Mrs Beavis was there.· The Victorian family would have had young children around until the parents were in their late middle age.
► house· Closely packed terraces of Victorian houses were spread outwards as the population grew.· But a two-story Victorian house already has been moved, to allow the excavations and eventual construction work.· They pull into the driveway of an old, white Victorian house.· Opposite were the elegant backs of Victorian houses, their grey bricks swelling into bow-windows, the roof-tiles glistening like wet flint.· Schultz had lived there with his wife and two children in a Victorian house for about two years, officials said.· Then Rita noticed a large Victorian house for sale - one she had long admired.· The yellow Victorian house on the property was owned by two unmarried Armistead sisters, who rented rooms to tourists.
► mansion· On the driveway up to the house, a Victorian mansion, two men are striding purposefully.· Norton House Hotel A Victorian mansion house set in 55 acres.· Their abandoned Victorian mansion has been bought by the local council to save it from ruin.· It's a Victorian mansion in the grand manner.· Margaret had told me the doctor now lived in a Victorian mansion in Ayr.
► novel· She would be around forty but had the appearance of a heroine in a Victorian novel - tall, willowy, ethereal.· You go on home now, and put those Victorian novels away.· One might with only slight exaggeration claim that firelight illuminates virtually every positive page in Victorian novels.· She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.· Accounts as overt as Kingsley's are, as I have said, most unusual in Victorian novels.· Social analysts and novelists alike seem determined to make these connections visible - hence the detective element in many Victorian novels.· So just who did Luke think he was, behaving like the father in some Victorian novel?
► painting· These influences and practices are being related to the nature and ideology of pre-Victorian and Victorian painting.· He is an authority on, and collector of Victorian paintings particularly of the pre-Raphaelites and he is a bonvivant.
► period· To have a dual occupation was an ancient way of life that lingered on in this area well into the Victorian period.· The Victorian period was one of tremendous economic and social change.· With better education in the late Victorian period, literate girls could easily be found.
► pub· Grandiose Victorian pub with ornate plaster-work ceiling and a nice summer beer garden.· Roomy High Victorian pub, with big bay windows and glass partitions.· Surely it is time that breweries understood the importance of their Victorian pubs, and turned to conservation rather than mutilation.· The Kenilworth A vintage Victorian pub well worth a visit for its rare fittings as well as for the drink.· The Windsor Buffet Busy, popular Victorian pub, with secluded booths.· Richly-decorated Saloon Bars more closely approximate to the modern idea of a Victorian pub.
► society· This accurately reflects the dominance of the family concept in Victorian society.· A nineteenth-century tale of gothic suspense that takes its readers from the heights of Victorian society to its depths.· The Victorian Society mounted a campaign to persuade us to take it on.
► style· Victoria Gardens - traditional Victorian style gardens provide a haven for tired shoppers.
► terrace· To the south lay a vast area of redevelopment, relieved only by the remains of a Victorian terrace.· He thought the name singularly inappropriate: either side was lined with a wall of Victorian terrace villas.· There was a vigorous life, both commercial and family, carried on in the basements of large Victorian terraces.· Council houses started immediately behind Woolworth's. Victorian terraces butted up to the side of Marks and Spencer's.
► times· We had presumed, I think fairly reasonably, that this particular gentleman would figure large in any lecture on Victorian times.· In Victorian times more than now boys were enjoined to be little men.· Tiny baskets of cherries are tucked away in the display, an idea popular in Victorian times.· The little tern's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage.· For those who see Methodism only through the solid shopkeeper image of Victorian times, this may seem a strange assertion.· Later, in Victorian times, birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers, by taxidermists and by egg collectors.· The importance of work and employment to those with mental disorder has, however, been recognized since Victorian times.
► value· And now Mrs Thatcher comes along and tells us we've got to return to Victorian values.· Those particular Victorian values had been shot down about 1983.· We hear a lot about returning to Victorian values.· The former Prime Minister used to talk about Victorian values, and some of my hon. Friends have mentioned them this evening.· This it did by demanding a return to the family and Victorian values.· The Anti-Slavery Society has since had to adapt Victorian values to the post-Victorian world.· The Victorian values so cherished by Thatcherism served the same hypocritical purpose.· Dear Maggie, I feel I owe you an apology for abandoning your esteemed Victorian values.
► woman· After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women.· What we have is Sigmund, not Ida, a Victorian male doctor, not a-middle-class Victorian woman.· A Victorian woman posed by an urn.· The main points of Mary Kingsley's remarkable story have appeared in compendiums on Victorian women travellers.
a big Victorian house2morally strict in a way that was typical in the time of Queen Victoria: Victorian valuesVictorian1 adjectiveVictorian2 noun
VictorianVictorian2 noun [countable] ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
word sets- He had just been, for a Victorian, exceptionally well loved.
- The picture of politics drawn here is not one that a literate Victorian would recognise.
- Victoria was not much of a Victorian, with her mistrust of the church and distaste for earnestness in general.
- What comes through is a totally idealized notion of the maternal, the maternal perhaps as envisaged by a Victorian.
WORD SETS► History
Collocationsage, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the Victorian age
an English person living in the period when Queen Victoria ruled (=the period 1837–1901 when Victoria was queen of England)
► the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era· a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era
► a Georgian/Victorian/Edwardian etc house (=a house in Britain that was built during the reign of a particular king or queen)· They live in a lovely old Edwardian house with high ceilings.