victorian

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Vic=to=ri=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

victorian, 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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

victorian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or characteristic of the time of Queen Victoria.
2 associated with attitudes attributed to this time, esp. of prudery and moral strictness.
--n. a person, esp. a writer, of this time.

Derivative

Victorianism n.

THESAURUS

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