victorian Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
  2. adjective of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled
    • Victorian morals
  3. adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
    puritanical; prissy; square-toed; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; tight-laced; prudish; prim; straightlaced; priggish.
    • my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  4. adjective satellite typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria

WordNet

Vic*to"ri*an adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.

Webster 1913