shakespeare

IPA: ʃˈeɪkspɪr

Root Word: Shakespeare

noun

  • A surname.
  • William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
  • His works or media adaptations of his works.
  • A place name:
  • A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
  • A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.
  • (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
  • (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
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Examples of "shakespeare" in Sentences

  • Shakespeare was the consummate dramatist.
  • In Shakespeare, the Jew is the victim of the gentile.
  • William Shakespeare was born to a Catholic recusant family.
  • The Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter is the bulletin of Oxfordians.
  • An abiding preoccupation was the Shakespeare authorship question.
  • Numberless portraits have been falsely identified with Shakespeare.
  • All that bardolatry means is the excessive adulation of Shakespeare.
  • Moby Shakespeare contains the complete unabridged works of Shakespeare.
  • As befits the genre, the tragic ending of Shakespeare's play is avoided.
  • Within the academy, of course, Shakespeare's preeminence is unquestioned.

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