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English Dictionary: victorian by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Victorian
adj
  1. of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
  2. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
    Synonym(s): priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight- laced, victorian
  3. typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
n
  1. a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
      as, the Victorian poets.
  
      {Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under
            {Dyonysian}.
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