Victorian - definition, transcription
noun
adjective
- typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria (syn: victorian)
Extra examples
My parents have very Victorian attitudes when it comes to sex.
...a conservative Christian sect with a code of sexual morality that is often seen as quaintly Victorian by outsiders...
Victorian values
...the whole town is joying in the fact that its oldest church has been restored to its Victorian splendor...
...practically every horizontal surface in the Victorian parlor was blanketed with fussy little bibelots...
The book is a burlesque of Victorian society.
...a wealthy recluse who lived in Cimmerian isolation in a decaying Victorian mansion...
...shivered with cold in the dark and funereal Victorian mansion...
...bought a charming Victorian house with a garret that she hoped to turn into a writing room...
...mossy rules of etiquette that date from the Victorian era...
...the trim on Victorian houses is sometimes elaborately ornamental...
...the Victorian era was often characterized by a hypocritical puritanism...
Victorian values have turned Britain into a more divided country.
She bid £100 for a Victorian chair.
It is a seventeenth century farmhouse with some Victorian additions grafted on.
Word forms
singular: Victorian
plural: Victorians
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