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ELIZABETHAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I

Example:

William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Elizabethan" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

Elizabethan (of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen

Example:

Elizabethan music

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Elizabeth (Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603))

Elizabethan age (a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity)

Derivation:

Elizabeth I (Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603))

Elizabethan (a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I)

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