Victorian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Victoria + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns), from the name of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), monarch of the United Kingdom.
Base: Victoria
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Victorian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Victorian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Victorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, or that period.
pos: adj
examples: From the platforms at Wapping or Rotherhithe you can see the tunnel fleetingly illuminated as the trains approach; it looks so incredibly Victorian that you expect to see Jack the Ripper loitering between the arches.
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
gloss: Of or relating to the culture or social conditions of that period.
pos: adj
examples: In some cases, teachers reported being aware of pupils living in "Victorian conditions", of youngsters coming to school with no socks or coat and of more families depending on food banks.
I'm not proposing a return to Victorian working conditions, or anything like that, but there are two areas where things need changing.
While masturbation was never favored in Judeo-Christian tradition, Victorian morality, along with the Great Awakening and other religious revivals in America, created a perfect storm for people to really get obsessed with it.
gloss: Of or relating to the culture or social conditions of that period.
pos: adj
examples: Unhappily, however, all that remains of Cherhill's claim to an old manor house is a rather cold ungabled building, blue-slated in hard ruled lines, and a porch which might have been transplanted from a late Victorian house.
gloss: Of or displaying the (supposed) ideals or standards of morality of that period; conservative; also, old-fashioned, out-of-date.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: “I’m asking you your intentions, damn it!” said Wimsey, “and if that’s not Victorian enough, I don’t know what is.”
The Labor Church did not last; but the reaction did; and the last I heard of its founder was that he was helping the movement against Victorian prudery in a very practical way as a Nudist photographer, […]
Even the legalization and vastly increased approval of same-sex marriage has a Victorian aspect. The early same-sex marriage advocates Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch argued that marriage would domesticate homosexuals.
gloss: A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period.
pos: noun
examples: What a perfect Victorian you are, Charles. I should like to keep you in a glass case.
It was not until the late 1800s when older members of New York society, aghast at the invasion of vulgar "new money," devised a daunting system of social rules – not to mention silverware – meant to repel anyone of humble origins who dared to sit down at one of their twelve-course dinners. It was the Victorians who gave us such useful implements as the strawberry knife.
The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.
gloss: An item of furniture from that period.
pos: noun
gloss: A house built in the Victorian architectural style.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The commercial resurgence brought about by the area's changing tastes is reflected in midtown's conglomeration of refurbished Victorians, apartments, specialty shops, offices, corner groceries, restaurants, single-family homes, and bed and breakfast inns.
Derived words: neo-Victorian
retro-Victorian
unVictorian
Victoriana
Victorianised
Victorianized
Victorianise
Victorianize
Victorianism
Victorianist
Victorianly
Victorianness
Victorian Turkish bath
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: Viktorina
lang: Georgian
word: ვიქტორიანული
roman: vikṭorianuli
lang: Swedish
word: viktoriansk