Definition of Elizabethan

1. Noun. A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I. "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"

Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen. "Elizabethan music"
Partainyms: Elizabeth, Elizabethan Age
Derivative terms: Elizabeth I

Definition of Elizabethan

1. a. Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.

Definition of Elizabethan

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elizabethan

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Haldane
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth River
Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
Elizabeth Seaman
Elizabeth Seton
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabethan
Elizabethan English
Elizabethan age
Elizabethan sonnet
Elizabethan sonnets
Elizabethian
Elk
Elkanah
Elkasaite
Elkasaites
Elkinsias
Elks
Ella
Ella Fitzgerald

Literary usage of Elizabethan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"THE literary temper of elizabethan England was distinguished a splendid vitality ... The powerful individuality of elizabethan literature is unmistakable, ..."

2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"The subject- matter of the elizabethan lyric is mainly limited to amorous emotion ... Indeed one of the most voluble and honey-tongued of elizabethan poets, ..."

3. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1900)
"INTRODUCTION I. THE elizabethan HABIT OF SPEECH IN order to read Shakespeare with ease and enjoyment, we must get into the way of taking certain things for ..."

4. The Bookman (1911)
"Dr. Klein, we fancy, has given his own * Literary Criticism from the elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis. By David Klein, Ph.D. With an ..."

5. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1904)
"Tennyson has admirably characterised the special distinction of the elizabethan age by a single epithet, "The spacious times of great Elizabeth. ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"Lyrics from the Song-books of the elizabethan Age; More Lyrics from the Song-books of the elizabethan Age; and Poems from Romances and Prose Tracts of the ..."

7. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1920)
"WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN THE elizabethan DRAMA.1 BY HW HERRINGTON. ... As a group, they fall relatively late in the elizabethan period (Shad- well's, indeed, ..."

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