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Edwardian

Edwardian

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A person who lived in Britain about 1901 to 1910 or who shows that time's manners
  • noun
  • /ˌɛd.wɚˈdi.ən/
: edwardiano
  • Many people appreciate the charm of an Edwardian, with its distinctive architectural features and historical significance.

Although that course changes and is richly debated, there will be Edwardians and anti Edwardians.

Examples

  • The Edwardian, looking forward in a time of prosperity, saw more of the same; instead, there had followed a century of horrors.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • It's called the Edwardian.

  • It's, it's, it's he's a sort of Edwardian leftist.

  • Despite the fact that, as Robert F. Kiernan argues, Coward's "crisp dialogue was the death blow to Edwardian

    Academic text (2017)
  • Although that course changes and is richly debated, there will be Edwardians and anti Edwardians.

  • To Edwardians like Scott and his team, the initial signs of mental instability in a man such as Evans would have been a source of puzzled embarrassment.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The Edwardians were confronting a new idea: that women might not want to be put first in shipwrecks; they might prefer equality, not only in rescues but also in politics.

    Blog text (32)
  • She divides up the writers of her day into Edwardians and Georgians, the former representing the realism of the past, the latter the modernism of the future.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Twitting his friend for conservative and Anglophile prejudices—though he himself still called Browning "the greatest poet of all time"—Wilson defended his preferences among the Edwardians.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The book explores the lives of various Edwardians and how their social attitudes shaped modern Britain.

Surface Forms

Edwardian singular
Edwardians plural

Morphology

Edwardian = Edward (transparent) = Edward + ian

The suffix '-ian' regularly forms nouns meaning 'a person associated with or living in the period of' a named individual, so the noun sense is predictable from 'Edward' + '-ian'.

Etymology

Edwardian is formed from Edward and -ian, meaning 'from that time', so an Edwardian is a person 'from Edward's time' or someone who shows the manners and habits of 1901–1910.