Victorian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Victorian in British English:
UK [vɪkˈtɔ:riən]
How to pronounce Victorian in American English:
US [vɪkˈtɔriən, -ˈtor-]
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- Adjective:
- exaggeratedly proper
Word Origin
- Victorian (adj.)
- 1839, "belonging to or typical of the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain" (ruled 1837-1901). Figurative sense of "typified by prudish or outdated attitudes" is attested by 1934. The noun meaning "a person from or typical of Victorian times" is from 1876.
Example
- 1. Victorian england believed circumcision stopped boys from masturbating .
- 2. The three-story grand hotel , an elegant victorian villa on the seafront that had played host to rudyard kipling , w. somerset maugham and william howard taft , collapsed , crushing hundreds of guests and employees .
- 3. Victorian grandeur sits alongside modern poverty .
- 4. One recent biographer accused the victorian art critic of being a paedophile .
- 5. Good infrastructure lasts a long time : britain is still enjoying the fruits of victorian railway investment .