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neo-Victorian

neo-Victorian adjective: harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.

Adjective

neo-Victorian (comparative more neo-Victorian, superlative most neo-Victorian)

  1. Harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.
    • neo-Victorian detective fiction
    • a neo-Victorian domestic ideal of femininity

Noun

neo-Victorian (plural neo-Victorians)

  1. Someone with neo-Victorian characteristics; a conservative.
    • The cosmopolitans attacked neo-Victorians for discriminating against gays, feminists, and immigrants, and for stigmatizing the black poor for their “culture of poverty.”2022, Gary Gerstle, “Introduction”, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Forms of neo-Victorian

Adjective
comparativemore neo-Victorian
superlativemost neo-Victorian
Noun
pluralneo-Victorians

Origin of neo-Victorian

From neo- + Victorian.

Questions about neo-Victorian

What does neo-Victorian mean?
Neo-Victorian means harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.
What part of speech is neo-Victorian?
Neo-Victorian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near neo-Victorian in the dictionary

  1. neo-Trotskyists
  2. neo-ultramontanism
  3. neo-ultramontanist
  4. neo-ultramontanists
  5. neo-vernacular
  6. neo-Victorian
  7. neo-Victorians
  8. neo-Western
  9. neo-Westerns
  10. neo-Zionism
  11. neo-Zionist

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