Edwardian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -É‘Ë(ɹ)dɪən
Full definition of Edwardian
Adjective
Edwardian
- Of the period in British history from circa 1900 to 1910, when Edward VII ruled the British Empire.
- 2013-05-17, George Monbiot, Money just makes the rich suffer, In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. … The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.