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Shakespeareans

Shakespeareans is the plural of Shakespearean.

Meaning of Shakespearean

Noun

Shakespearean (plural Shakespeareans)

  1. A scholar of the works of Shakespeare.
    • Another lawyer and well-known Shakespearian, Richard Grant White, says: "No dramatist of the time, not even [Francis] Beaumont, who was the younger son of a judge of the Common Pleas, and who after studying in the Inns of Court abandoned law for the drama, used legal phrases with Shakespeare's...1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 341
  2. A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.

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Questions about Shakespeareans

What is Shakespeareans the plural of?
Shakespeareans is the plural of Shakespearean.

Words near Shakespeareans in the dictionary

  1. Shakespeareanized
  2. Shakespeareanizes
  3. Shakespeareanizing
  4. Shakespeareanly
  5. Shakespeareanness
  6. Shakespeareans
  7. Shakespeared
  8. Shakespearemania
  9. Shakespeareologist
  10. Shakespeareologists
  11. Shakespeareology

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