elizabethan

IPA: ɛɫɪzʌbˈiθʌn

A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.

Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
Often preceded by new or second: pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
Pertaining to the reign of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, from 1741 to 1762.

Examples of "elizabethan" in Sentences

Elizabethan era and the Civil ar.
Elizabethan theatrical conditions.
It was often used in the Elizabethan era.
It is based on a popular Elizabethan tune.
The core of the present house is Elizabethan.
The Elizabethan culture will never be forgotten.
Of course this is not the original Elizabethan version.
Attempts at classicism is everywhere in the Elizabethan.
Its origins lay in the discontent with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
Go forth and record with mine own blessing and this horrible elizabethan crap.
He now constituted himself the literary apologist of the Elizabethan Settlement.
The surgery site is a bit swollen and she hates the elizabethan collar, but she is otherwise in happy spirits.
Got some other things on th ehopper at the moment and a little elizabethan period piece about a swordfighter I wanna do first.
I love me some Moliere but damn-- that's like elizabethan English-- and yeah, style wise, give me Camus over Proust-- what can I say?
Inspired by greengrl's link to a page of elizabethan insults, which contains the text of a ten-year-old e-mail who says this stuff doesn't stick around?
April 30, 2007 at 10:02 am this picture is one of my favorites. did someone seriously try to school on elizabethan english in the comments? i mean, really? you tried that? wow.