| 单词 | victorian |
| 释义 | victorian (once / 11819311 pages) adj Someone who's victorian is particularly prudish or prissy. Your victorian math teacher might demand complete silence and expect to be addressed as "Sir." When you describe someone as victorian, you mean that the person has an old fashioned, uptight idea of how others should speak and behave. You'll often see the adjective spelled with a capital V, since it comes from the other meaning of the word, "from the time period during the reign of Britain's Queen Victoria." Ever since the mid-1930's, people have described overly proper acquaintances as victorian, meaning that they seem like they're living in the nineteenth century. WORD FAMILYvictorian USAGE EXAMPLESJohn Mackey had just turned 25 years old when he opened a small vegetarian food market in an old victorian house in Austin, Texas. Washington Post(Aug 03, 2014) Anything that gets in the way of water will be devoured.The victorian drainage system is not capable of coping. BBC(Jul 10, 2012) She took a gold victorian toothpick from the pocket of her mannish jacket and used it energetically. Moore, Ward, Greener Than You Think(2010) adj exaggeratedly proper Syn priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness Victorian (once / 1884 pages) nadj Something that's Victorian existed during the time that Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain. If your house is Victorian, it was built in the 19th century. Queen Victoria was the reigning monarch of Britain from 1837 until 1901, and things that were created, designed, or written then can be described as Victorian, especially if they're related to the popular style or standards of the time. There is Victorian art, architecture, and literature, and there are also typically uptight Victorian values and attitudes. To describe someone as Victorian these days means to criticize them as prudish or old fashioned. WORD FAMILYVictorian: Victorians+/Victoria: Victorian, Victorias USAGE EXAMPLESI was at a party in a Victorian mansion in Moseley. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) They hold support groups at their Victorian home outside Boston; manage a website, ecttreatment.org; and answer inquiries from people seeking guidance. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) They hold support groups at their Victorian home outside Boston here; manage a website, ecttreatment.org; and answer inquiries from people seeking guidance. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1n a person who lived during the reign of Victoria Hyper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 2adj of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled Victorian morals 3adj typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria Syn nonmodern not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time |
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