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Elizabethian

Elizabethian adjective: synonym of Elizabethan (“pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603”).

Adjective

Elizabethian (comparative more Elizabethian, superlative most Elizabethian)

  1. Synonym of Elizabethan (“pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603”).
    • Both in respect of this and of the former excellence, Mr. Wordsworth strikingly resembles Samuel Daniel, one of the golden writers of our golden Elizabethian age, now most causelessly neglected: […]1817, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Characteristic Defects of [William] Wordsworth’s Poetry, with the Principles from which the Judgement, that They are Defects, is Deduced—Their Proportion to...
    • This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethian Era, worse remains behind!1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 532
    Synonyms:
    Elizabethan

Synonyms of Elizabethian

Forms of Elizabethian

comparativemore Elizabethian
superlativemost Elizabethian

Origin of Elizabethian

From Elizabeth + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’ forming adjectives), referring to Elizabeth I (1533–1603).

Questions about Elizabethian

What does Elizabethian mean?
Elizabethian means synonym of Elizabethan (“pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603”).
What part of speech is Elizabethian?
Elizabethian is an adjective.

Words near Elizabethian in the dictionary

  1. elizabethanizes
  2. elizabethanizing
  3. Elizabethanly
  4. Elizabethanness
  5. Elizabethans
  6. Elizabethian
  7. Elizabethiana
  8. Elizabeths
  9. Elizabethton
  10. Elizabethtown
  11. Elizabethville

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