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bardolator

Syllables: bar·dol·a·tor/bɑːˈdɒlətə/US/bɑɹˈdɑlətɚ/

bardolator noun: one who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.

Noun (1)

bardolator (plural bardolators)

  1. (derogatory, usually) One who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.
    • Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator?1991, Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, →ISBN, page 134
    • To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile.1994, Nina Auerbach, “Revelations on Pages and Stages”, in Janice Carlisle, Daniel R. Schwarz, editors, Narrative and Culture, University of Georgia Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 29

Noun (2) capitalized: Bardolator

Bardolator (plural Bardolators)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of bardolator.
    • There would be the dinosaurs still plugging away at scholarship everyone else had abandoned thirty years ago, the hotshot theory heads with their jargon, the Bardolators (often stray actors) and those who treated them as unthinking fans.2009, A. J. Hartley, What Time Devours, Berkley, →ISBN, page 45
    • I keep returning to Shakespeare in the chapters that follow not because I am a Bardolator (I am) but because he is inescapable for all who came after, in all nations of the world except France, where Stendhal and Victor Hugo went against their country's neoclassical rejection of what was regarded...2011, Harold Bloom, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, →ISBN, page 8

Forms of bardolator

pluralbardolators
alternative formBardolator
pluralBardolators

Origin of bardolator

Blend of bard + idolator.

Questions about bardolator

What does bardolator mean?
Bardolator means one who loves or worships the works of William Shakespeare.
What part of speech is bardolator?
Bardolator is a noun.
How do you pronounce bardolator?
Bardolator is pronounced /bɑɹˈdɑlətɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of bardolator?
The plural of bardolator is bardolators.

Words near bardolator in the dictionary

  1. bardlings
  2. Bardney
  3. bardo
  4. bardolater
  5. bardolaters
  6. bardolator
  7. bardolators
  8. bardolatries
  9. bardolatrous
  10. bardolatry
  11. Bardolino

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