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VICTORIAN AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Victorian age mean? 

VICTORIAN AGE (noun)
  The noun VICTORIAN AGE has 1 sense:

1. a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputationplay

  Familiarity information: VICTORIAN AGE used as a noun is very rare.


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VICTORIAN AGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)


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