Elizabethanadj.n.
/ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθən/ A. adj.
1. Belonging to the period of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Also, belonging to the period of Queen Elizabeth II (1952– ).
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1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) I. 388 The fashions of the Elizabethean age have been chronicled by honest John Stowe.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxii. 166 Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 165 This glorious Elizabethan Era.
1887 J. W. Hales 3 Elizab. Comedies in Macmillan's Mag. May 61/2 He is..never to flog him the [pupil] when he cannot say his lesson—a peculiar hardship to an Elizabethan teacher.
1957 D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 235 The ‘New Elizabethan’ theme, cooking in the minds of statesmen, leads to nothing more glorious than the devastation of an Arab quarter.
2. Of dress, furniture, architecture: In the style in vogue during the period of Queen Elizabeth I. Also of language, literary form, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > Tudor and Jacobean
Queen Elizabeth1673
Tudor1815
Elizabethan1821
Jacobean1844
Tudoresque1847
Jacobethan1933
Tudorish1965
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English
north country1673
Mancunian1771
cockney1776
southernizing1861
Hiberno-English1864
Elizabethan1869
southernized1873
Welsh English1877
Norfolk1889
Tyneside1896
broguish1899
Anglo-Welsh1905
Oxford1928
Novocastrian1969
Konglish1975
Singlish1986
mockney1989
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 279/1 What a collegiate aspect has that fine Elizabethan hall.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 282 A large Elizabethan ruff.
1869 Daily News 15 Mar. In the drama ‘Lady Grace,’ the contrast between modern manners and Elizabethan language is rather incongruous.
1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. ii. 20 The Elizabethan style..is a mixture of the old English and the ruder Italian of the Renaissance.
B. n.
A person (esp. a poet or dramatist) of the period of Queen Elizabeth I. Chiefly plural. Also, a person of the period of Queen Elizabeth II.
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the world > people > person > [noun] > living in specific era
Elizabethan1859
Jacobean1885
Georgian1891
post-Victorian1914
Edwardian1920
Carolean1927
1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 69 The..literature of England would be represented to Milton, in the year 1624, by that cluster of..men..who had been already named ‘the Elizabethans’.
1881 Athenæum 12 Nov. 623/3 The murders and adulteries that..had pleased the Elizabethans.
1882 A. B. Grosart Spenser's Compl. Wks. III. Introd. 62 Our Elizabethans, Lodge and Greene especially.
1884 Athenæum 22 Mar. 386/2 The savage sublimity of the Elizabethans.
1953 F. E. Halliday in R. Carew Surv. Cornwall 11 It still remains..one of the best accounts that we possess of life in Elizabethan England, a quality that should appeal to Elizabethans of the new age.
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