Definitions for Victorian
Victorian
Vic·to·ri·an
Spelling: [vik-tawr-ee-uh n, -tohr-]
IPA: /vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr-/
Victorian is a 9 letter English word.
You can make 407 anagrams from letters in Victorian (aciinortv).
Definitions for Victorian
noun
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a person who lived during the Victorian period.
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a house in or imitative of the Victorian style.
adjective
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of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign:
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having the characteristics usually attributed to the Victorians, especially prudishness and observance of the conventionalities.
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Architecture.
noting or pertaining to the architecture, furnishings, and decoration of English-speaking countries between c1840 and c1900, characterized by rapid changes of style as a consequence of aesthetic and philosophical controversy, technological innovations, and changes of fashion, by the frequent presence of ostentatious ornament, and by an overall trend from classicism at the start to romanticism and eclecticism at the middle of the period and thence to classicism again, with attempts at stylistic innovation occurring from time to time.
noting or pertaining to the massive, elaborate work characteristic especially of the period c1855–80, derived mainly from the Baroque and Gothic styles and characterized by the presence of heavy carved ornament, elaborate moldings, etc., by the use of strong and generally dark colors, by the frequent use of dark varnished woodwork, by the emphasis on geometrical form rather than on textural effects, and frequently by an effect of harshness.
Origin of Victorian
First recorded in 1870-75; Victori(a) + -an
Examples for Victorian
According to Wynd, “Freddie Mercury once said he wanted to lead a Victorian life surrounded by exquisite clutter.”
At the beginning of the Victorian Era art was at its lowest ebb.
But in one area, they seem to have regressed: bathing attire is starting to look positively Victorian.
As in the mild and innocent poem of Victorian days, "'twas in a crowd."
In addition there are bibliographies of almost all the greatest Victorian writers.
The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England.
Here is one passage which might have been written in Victorian England.
Shortly, among the Victorian horrors of his gloomy rooms, she came to see him off.
Your Victorian lesbians were sexy, vocal, recognizable, and radical too, I say.
To him, Churchill “was radical precisely because he was conservative” and “essentially a buccaneering Victorian Whig.”