nineteenth-century
Steam engine age
Nineteenth-century describes something belonging to or characteristic of the 1800s: nineteenth-century literature, nineteenth-century attitudes toward women.
The term often evokes the Victorian era, industrialization, or colonialism.
As an adjective before a noun, it takes hyphens; after a verb, it typically doesn't: The building is nineteenth century.
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
Napoleonic · antebellum · Gilded Age · Reconstruction · Meiji · Qing dynasty · British Empire · Ottoman
Thermal vapor motor
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- telegraphElectrical message system
- photographyCreating images from light
- electricityEnergy from charged particles
locomotive · steamship · spinning jenny · Bessemer process · phonograph · typewriter · sewing machine · industrialization
Reviving ancient aesthetic principles
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
- Beaux-ArtsClassical French architectural tradition
- ItalianateResembling Roman or Florentine style
- Second EmpireNapoleon III's French regime
brownstone · terrace house · ironwork · gaslight · mansard roof · veranda · conservatory · row house
Art movement emphasizing light
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- Pre-RaphaeliteVictorian artists emulating earlier masters
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- SymbolismArt emphasizing ideas over reality
Hudson River School · Monet · Turner · Delacroix · Courbet · salon · plein air · landscape
Grouping by shared traits
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
- chaperoneProtective adult companion
- calling cardIdentifying mark or token
corset · crinoline · workhouse · tenement · servant · governess · boarding school · finishing school
Victorian
Of a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
imperialism · Napoleonic · antebellum · Gilded Age · Reconstruction · Meiji · Qing dynasty · British Empire · Ottoman · abolition
steam engine
Thermal vapor motor
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- telegraphElectrical message system
- photographyCreating images from light
electricity · locomotive · steamship · spinning jenny · Bessemer process · phonograph · typewriter · sewing machine · industrialization · factory
neoclassical
Reviving ancient aesthetic principles
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
- Beaux-ArtsClassical French architectural tradition
- ItalianateResembling Roman or Florentine style
Second Empire · brownstone · terrace house · ironwork · gaslight · mansard roof · veranda · conservatory · row house · grand staircase
Impressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
- RomanticismEmotion-centered artistic movement
- Pre-RaphaeliteVictorian artists emulating earlier masters
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
Symbolism · Hudson River School · Monet · Turner · Delacroix · Courbet · salon · plein air · landscape · portraiture
class
Grouping by shared traits
calling card · corset · crinoline · workhouse · tenement · servant · governess · boarding school · finishing school · debutante
Dickens
Surname of Victorian novelist
- AustenLiterary family name
- Dostoevsky19th-century Russian author
- BronteVictorian literary surname
Tolstoy · Hugo · Melville · Twain · Poe · Balzac · Flaubert · Eliot · Hardy · Chekhov
nineteenth-centurymodern-day
Of the present era
present-day · contemporary · twentieth-century · future · current
nineteenth-centurycontemporary
Of the present age
modern · current · present-day · up-to-date · cutting-edge
nineteenth-centuryspace-age
Technologically advanced, futuristically styled
post-industrial · high-tech · futuristic · cyber · computerized
nineteenth, century, nineteen, ninth, centuries, centurion, centenarian, centenary, bicentennial