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Adjective: victorian  vik'to-ree-un
  1. Exaggeratedly proper
    "my victorian Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts";
    - priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed [archaic], straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, bluenosed [US, informal], uptight [informal]
Noun: Victorian  vik'to-ree-un
  1. A person who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria
     
  2. [Austral] Someone from the Australian state of Victoria
Adjective: Victorian  vik'to-ree-un
  1. Typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
    "Her Victorian sensibilities were offended by the risqué performance"
     
  2. Of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled
    "Victorian morals"
     
  3. [Austral] Relating to the Australian state of Victoria

Derived forms: Victorians

See also: nonmodern, proper

Type of: actor, doer, worker

Encyclopedia: Victorian, Saint