• Edwardian

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪən

    Origin

    Edward + -ian

    Full definition of Edwardian

    Adjective

    Edwardian

    1. 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.
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