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.