From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
nonmodern \nonmodern\ adj.
1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time.
Opposite of {modern}. [Narrower terms: {antebellum};
{fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal),
stodgy old-fashioned}; {medieval, mediaeval, gothic};
{old-time, quaint}; {unmodernized}; {victorian};
{old-fashioned, outmoded}; {old-world}] Also See: {old},
{past}.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England;
as, the Victorian poets.
[1913 Webster]
{Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under
{Dyonysian}.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Victorian
adj 1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to
the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy},
{prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced},
{strait-laced}, {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-
laced}, {victorian}]
3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen
Victoria
n 1: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
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