ELIZABETH

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• ELIZABETH (noun)
  The noun ELIZABETH has 2 senses:

1. daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

2. Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)

  Familiarity information: ELIZABETH used as a noun is rare.

• ELIZABETH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elizabeth; Elizabeth II

Context example:

Elizabeth II is the head of state in Great Britain

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Elizabeth" is a member of...):

House of Windsor; Windsor (the British royal family since 1917)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elizabeth; Elizabeth I

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Elizabeth" is a member of...):

House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

 Context examples 

Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was at that time a very young man, just engaged in the study of the law; and Elizabeth found him extremely agreeable, and every plan in his favour was confirmed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The house was built in Elizabeth's time, and is a large, regular, brick building; heavy, but respectable looking, and has many good rooms.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was sitting near the door—Elizabeth saw me directly; but he did not; he was busy with the umbrella.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth, or Beth, as everyone called her, was a rosy, smooth-haired, bright-eyed girl of thirteen, with a shy manner, a timid voice, and a peaceful expression which was seldom disturbed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“But you forget, mamma,” said Elizabeth, “that we shall meet him at the assemblies, and that Mrs. Long promised to introduce him.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We expected more symmetry between the southern and northern summer, said Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) team that captured the image.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

In a second study, a team led by Dr. Elizabeth Phelps (NYU) set out to see if extinction training could similarly erase a fear in people.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

He read of sickly Elizabeth Barrett, who for years had not placed her feet upon the ground, until that day of flame when she eloped with Browning and stood upright, upon the earth, under the open sky; and what Browning had done for her, Martin decided he could do for Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My conjecture had been correct: the strangers had slipped in before us, and they now stood by the vault of the Rochesters, their backs towards us, viewing through the rails the old time-stained marble tomb, where a kneeling angel guarded the remains of Damer de Rochester, slain at Marston Moor in the time of the civil wars, and of Elizabeth, his wife.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)