What does Victorian mean?
Definitions for Victorian
vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr-Vic·to·ri·an
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Princeton's WordNet
Victorian(adj)
a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
Victorian(adj)
of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled
"Victorian morals"
priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian(adj)
exaggeratedly proper
"my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Victorian(adj)
typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
Wiktionary
Victorian(Noun)
A person living, or born in that period, or exhibiting characteristics of the Victorian period.
Victorian(Noun)
A person from the state of Victoria in Australia
Victorian(Adjective)
Of, or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria or of that period
Victorian(Adjective)
Of, or displaying the supposed standards or ideals of morality of that period
Victorian(Adjective)
Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period
Victorian(Adjective)
Of, or relating to the state of Victoria in Australia
Webster Dictionary
Victorian(adj)
of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets
Freebase
Victorian
The Victorian is a 25-issue comic book series published by Penny-Farthing Press and starting in 1999. The brainchild of creator Trainor Houghton, the series included a number of notable script writers and illustrators, including Len Wein, Glen Orbik and Howard Chaykin.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Victorian' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3793
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Victorian' in Adjectives Frequency: #501
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Victorian in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Victorian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Victorian in a Sentence
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
We suspected we'd see a bias towards males because science is done by people and people have an inherent male bias, this is especially true as many of our collections come from the Victorian era of macho hunters going out trying to shoot the biggest fiercest creatures for their collections.
In all my years as a kid collecting fossilized shark teeth around Victorian sites (I had over 500 specimens), I only ever found one half of a large megalodon tooth.
I think there is a general sense in this country, at least for me -- which is incorrect -- that infectious diseases are completely eradicated, or that we found some way to get rid of them and that they are 'Victorian' illnesses, the reality is that's just not the case. It's definitely something people need to be aware of.
...The Victorian era (was) a time in Britain for great change and progress, an era that has always inspired me and my work, (Burberry) chose to present his company with an emblem of a knight on a horse, but for his family crest, he instead chose a unicorn. Thomas Burberry was a daring innovator but also a romantic and a dreamer.
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