Shakspeare

Proper noun

Shakespeare (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespeares)

1. A surname.
   • The name Shakespeare occurs from the 13th century on in the records of various English counties. The first Shakespeare as yet discovered in Warwickshire is one Thomas, a felon, who fled from the law in 1359. Toward the end of the fourteenth century there were landed Shakespeares at Baddesley, and...1913, Katharine Lee Bates, Lilla Weed, compilers, Shakespeare: Selective Bibliography and Biographical Notes, [Wellesley, Mass.]: Wellesley College, page 33
   1. William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
2. (metonymically) William Shakespeare's works or media adaptations of his works.
   • He is reading Shakespeare.
3. A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
4. A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.

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