VICTORIAN


Meaning of VICTORIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vɪktɔ:riən ]

( Victorians)

1.

Victorian means belonging to, connected with, or typical of Britain in the middle and last parts of the 19th century, when Victoria was Queen.

We have a lovely old Victorian house.

...The Early Victorian Period.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

2.

You can use Victorian to describe people who have old-fashioned attitudes, especially about good behaviour and morals.

Victorian values are much misunderstood...

My grandfather was very Victorian.

ADJ

3.

The Victorians were the British people who lived in the time of Queen Victoria.

N-COUNT : usu pl

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