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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]
Adjective: Victorian  vik'to-ree-un
  1. Of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled
    "Victorian morals"
     
  2. Typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
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
     
  3. [Austral] Relating to the Australian state of Victoria

Derived forms: Victorians

See also: nonmodern, proper

Type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

Encyclopedia: Victorian, Saint