Victorian1
/vɪkˈtɔːrɪən
/adjective
1Relating to the reign of Queen Victoria: a Victorian house...
- The Little Brown book provides a fascinating study of life in Victorian times, its attitudes, squalor and suffering.
- It is a place of prostitution and opium, and a home to the many hapless children orphaned by the double standards of Victorian society.
- Lord Arthur Savile is a young, privileged pillar of Victorian society whose wedding day is soon approaching.
1.1Relating to the attitudes and values of society during Queen Victoria’s reign, regarded as characterized especially by prudishness and a high moral tone: a return to Victorian values...
- Gone are the pompous, moralistic tomes full of Victorian values and happy endings.
- I think they want to replace sex education with dark, Victorian values.
- This was a vote for old-fashioned Victorian values, a belief in patriotism, the family, church and public service.
noun
A person who lived during the Victorian period: the Victorians had a passion for documenting, cataloguing and classifying the world around them...
- Measure for Measure disgusted the Victorians, but appealed to 20th-century audiences.
- At best Victorians could float, dog-paddle, or thrash about a bit.
- One might say that the Victorians are not so much the origin of our present as we are a continuation of theirs.
Derivatives
Victorianism
- Forster's early works reflect the trend of turn-of-the-century British writers to diverge from Victorianism.
- The reason is only marginally related to the general pejorative connotation that Victorianism carries.
- Both found a spiritual home in the stuffy, provincial atmosphere of colonial Victorianism.
Rhymes
Victorian2
/vɪkˈtɔːrɪən/ /vɪkˈtɔriən 
/adjective
Relating to the Australian state of Victoria: the Victorian Government has called for tenders to redevelop Melbourne’s railway station...
- The Victorian Chapter of the RAIA is currently lobbying.
- They were commissioned by the Victorian Arts Centre Trust to create a state-of-the-art facility.
- The stately Victorian governor general's residence is a significant building.
noun
A person from the Australian state of Victoria: the facility has taught thousands of Victorians to use the internet...
- You can take what Victorians refer to as "a screamer," in other words a mark from the shoulders of another player.
- The Victorians among the promoters were all members of parliament.
- He had been asked by the Victorians to look for suitable properties in South Australia for their investment.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Victoria1 + -an.