mid-Victorian

American  

[mid-vik-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr-] / ˈmɪd vɪkˈtɔr i ən, -ˈtoʊr- /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England.

   mid-Victorian writers.

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noun

1. a person, as a writer, belonging to the mid-Victorian time.

2. a person of mid-Victorian tastes, standards, ideas, etc.

mid-Victorian British  

adjective

1. history of or relating to the middle period of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901)

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noun

1. a person of the mid-Victorian era

Other Word Forms

• mid-Victorianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of mid-Victorian

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

He was earning what for the mid-Victorian era counted as a small fortune, but no fewer than four households of assorted relatives relied on his largesse.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Life expectancy in the mid-Victorian era was barely over 40 years.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021

First published in 1865, Sir John Tenniel’s iconic illustrations imagine Alice in a contemporary mid-Victorian pinafore, apron, and stockings.

From Time • May 6, 2015

And the great architecture critic John Ruskin drew on Carlyle too, in his attacks on the crass commercial bling of the mid-Victorian era.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2013

And on the mid-Victorian dado scarcely legible now, he suddenly discovered drawings.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes