say it: vik-TAW-ree-uhn
victorian is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled". It carries 4 recorded senses.
of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled
“Victorian morals”
exaggeratedly proper
“my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts”
typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for victorian come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.