Victorian
adjective
Related to the time period of Queen Victoria's rule in Britain (1837-1901), or the ideas, culture, and fashion of that time.
The house has a Victorian architecture and is full of antique furnishings.
Often appears as...
- victorian era
- victorian style
adjective
Having or showing the high moral standards often associated with the Victorian era.
Her Victorian principles made her disapprove the usage of foul language.
Often appears as...
- victorian values
- victorian morality
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Disapproving
noun
A person who lived during the Victorian era.
The book gives insight into the life of a typical Victorian.
Often appears as...
- typical victorian
- famous victorian
adjective
Related to the time period of Queen Victoria's rule in Britain (1837-1901), or the ideas, culture, and fashion of that time.
The house has a Victorian architecture and is full of antique furnishings.
Often appears as...
- victorian era
- victorian style
adjective
Having or showing the high moral standards often associated with the Victorian era.
Her Victorian principles made her disapprove the usage of foul language.
Often appears as...
- victorian values
- victorian morality
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who lived during the Victorian era.
The book gives insight into the life of a typical Victorian.
Often appears as...
- typical victorian
- famous victorian
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Understanding the historical backdrop of the Victorian era can clarify the social and artistic references of the term.
The novel's Victorian setting includes horse-drawn carriages and gas street lamps.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Nuance
Victorian often implies aspects viewed as traditional, elaborate, or decorous in the cultural and social scene.
Their wedding had a Victorian theme, complete with elaborate costumes and traditional dance.
Pro Tip 3/3World Influence
Many countries influenced by Britain during the 1800s might have Victorian-style architecture or customs.
The Victorian-era buildings in this old quarter reflect the British colonial influence.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Understanding the historical backdrop of the Victorian era can clarify the social and artistic references of the term.
The novel's Victorian setting includes horse-drawn carriages and gas street lamps.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Nuance
Victorian often implies aspects viewed as traditional, elaborate, or decorous in the cultural and social scene.
Their wedding had a Victorian theme, complete with elaborate costumes and traditional dance.
Pro Tip 3/3World Influence
Many countries influenced by Britain during the 1800s might have Victorian-style architecture or customs.
The Victorian-era buildings in this old quarter reflect the British colonial influence.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Understanding the historical backdrop of the Victorian era can clarify the social and artistic references of the term.
The novel's Victorian setting includes horse-drawn carriages and gas street lamps.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Nuance
Victorian often implies aspects viewed as traditional, elaborate, or decorous in the cultural and social scene.
Their wedding had a Victorian theme, complete with elaborate costumes and traditional dance.
Pro Tip 3/3World Influence
Many countries influenced by Britain during the 1800s might have Victorian-style architecture or customs.
The Victorian-era buildings in this old quarter reflect the British colonial influence.
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The Worth of Water PIPE...
to that point the river was full of raw sewage it was just free flow into the river it also meant that people were getting really ill from cholera and dying parliament agreed to invest in a sewage system this victorian era sewage system relieved the pressure on the river but then in the second world war it was
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Technology makes way for...
laughingly described as an informal settlement a slum people live in tin shacks and the three quarters are william live there this is like a victorian print in the victorian industrial city and out of these places will become the future of the city and
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Predictions of tech's...
a high point of the victorian period it was designed by a gardener joseph paxton and solved a major technological problem of its day england was going to have this exhibition they could not build an enormous structure to house it
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Do Shark Stories Help...
even though world war one was raging in europe america was still neutral in the conflict and very much hoping that they could stay out of it we were still emerging so to speak from those innocent years of the victorian period
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Incredibly Rare Lemurs...
mail can be tracked anywhere in the forest there are moments when when one can help feel like a 19th century Victorian hunter shooting animals out of trees but then when it's all over you realize that it's for the good of the
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Why the universe seems...
Waves of electromagnetic fluctuation in a vacuum seem unreal. Victorians thought the waves had to be waves in some material the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World,
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concerns to sell furniture when you look at interior decorating in this time period you can see a massive ship away from the victorian to a more clean kind of style so instead of buying a velvet chair
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A child of the state -...
got three tins of paint Airfix paint that you used for models and and I was it is a big children so I'm a big Victorian children's own when I was in a little turret at the top of it and I
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Wild Beavers Return...
ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened
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MI Finalist PIPE National...
century attractions on the island include the arch rock the victorian grand hotel and fort mackinac
Video examples
The Worth of Water PIPE...
to that point the river was full of raw sewage it was just free flow into the river it also meant that people were getting really ill from cholera and dying parliament agreed to invest in a sewage system this victorian era sewage system relieved the pressure on the river but then in the second world war it was
Video examples
Technology makes way for...
laughingly described as an informal settlement a slum people live in tin shacks and the three quarters are william live there this is like a victorian print in the victorian industrial city and out of these places will become the future of the city and
Video examples
Predictions of tech's...
a high point of the victorian period it was designed by a gardener joseph paxton and solved a major technological problem of its day england was going to have this exhibition they could not build an enormous structure to house it
Video examples
Do Shark Stories Help...
even though world war one was raging in europe america was still neutral in the conflict and very much hoping that they could stay out of it we were still emerging so to speak from those innocent years of the victorian period
Video examples
Incredibly Rare Lemurs...
mail can be tracked anywhere in the forest there are moments when when one can help feel like a 19th century Victorian hunter shooting animals out of trees but then when it's all over you realize that it's for the good of the
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
Waves of electromagnetic fluctuation in a vacuum seem unreal. Victorians thought the waves had to be waves in some material the ether. But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World,
Video examples
How Advertisers Joined...
concerns to sell furniture when you look at interior decorating in this time period you can see a massive ship away from the victorian to a more clean kind of style so instead of buying a velvet chair
Video examples
A child of the state -...
got three tins of paint Airfix paint that you used for models and and I was it is a big children so I'm a big Victorian children's own when I was in a little turret at the top of it and I
Video examples
Wild Beavers Return...
ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened
Video examples
MI Finalist PIPE National...
century attractions on the island include the arch rock the victorian grand hotel and fort mackinac
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Quote examples
Naomi Wolf
American Author
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.
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Stephen Gardiner
British Architect
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
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Charles Palliser
American Novelist
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Naomi Wolf
American Author
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.
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Nick Harkaway
English Novelist
Victorian theorists competed to identify how many biologically differentiated races lived on Earth and proposed inherent characteristics for them, formulated explanations for these presumed variations in humanity.
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Stephen Gardiner
British Architect
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
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Charles Palliser
American Novelist
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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