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Elizabethan
[ ih-liz-uh-bee-thuhn, -beth-uhn ]
adjective
- of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times:
Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
- noting or pertaining to an English Renaissance style of architecture of the reign of Elizabeth I characterized by fantastic sculptured or molded ornament of German or Flemish origin, symmetrical layouts, and an emphasis on domestic architecture. Compare Jacobean ( def 2 ).
noun
- an English person who lived during the Elizabethan period, especially a poet or dramatist.
Elizabethan
/ ɪˌɪəˈːθə /
adjective
- of, characteristic of, or relating to England or its culture in the age of Elizabeth I or to the United Kingdom or its culture in the age of Elizabeth II
- of, relating to, or designating a style of architecture used in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, characterized by moulded and sculptured ornament based on German and Flemish models
noun
- a person who lived in England during the reign of Elizabeth I
Other 51Թ Forms
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Elizabethan1
Example Sentences
Meanwhile, Gatwa has also been cast to play Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast in a new play as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced.
She helped Winesburg construct her wedding dress, a historically faithful reproduction of Elizabethan garb.
The only attention-thieving screens that the Elizabethan Welsh composer could have known would have been decorative barriers.
Shakespeare, McNeal posits, did something more radical than adapt “King Leir,” an anonymous Elizabethan play that he may have acted in.
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