victorian

4 definitions found

victorian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
     1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
        Opposite of modern. [Narrower terms: antebellum;
        fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),  stodgy old-fashioned
        ; medieval, mediaeval, gothic;
        old-time, quaint; unmodernized; victorian;
        old-fashioned, outmoded; old-world] Also See: old,
        past.
        [WordNet 1.5]

  Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
     as, the Victorian poets.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under
        Dyonysian.
        [1913 Webster]

victorian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Victorian
      adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to
             the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
      2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
         approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy,
         prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced,
         strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-   laced
         , victorian]
      3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen
         Victoria
      n 1: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

victorian - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Victorian":
     Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic,
     bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized,
     genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval,
     mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned,
     old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish,
     prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious,
     smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated