Elizabethans

Noun

Elizabethan (plural Elizabethans)

1. A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
   • Here too [Francis] Drake had luck: he took advantage of the Sultan of Ternate's war with the Portuguese garrison upon Tidore to make a treaty with him to sell his produce exclusively to the English. The literal-minded Elizabethans attached great importance to this: on the principle of never...1966, A[lfred] L[eslie] Rowse, “Drake’s Voyage”, in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, 1628 and The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage by William Cornelison Schouten, 1619 […], Cleveland, Oh....
2. A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
   • The ‘New Elizabethans’ were to be in continuity with their past, but also youthful, inventive, exploratory – a spirit most clearly to be seen in the arts.2017 February 19, Peter Webster, “The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II [book review]”, in LSE Review of Books, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022

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