ELIZABETHAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Elizabethan mean? 

• ELIZABETHAN (noun)
  The noun ELIZABETHAN has 1 sense:

1. a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I

  Familiarity information: ELIZABETHAN used as a noun is very rare.

• ELIZABETHAN (adjective)
  The adjective ELIZABETHAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen

  Familiarity information: ELIZABETHAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELIZABETHAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan

Hypernyms ("Elizabethan" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

Elizabethan (of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen)

• ELIZABETHAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Elizabethan music

Pertainym:

Elizabeth (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))

Elizabethan age (a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity)

Derivation:

Elizabeth I (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))

Elizabethan (a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I)

 Context examples 

We were ushered through the magnificent Elizabethan doorway and into his Grace’s study.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was bad enough; but, as the philosophic Dane observes, with that universal applicability which distinguishes the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era, worse remains behind!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For a time, so steeped was he in the plays and in the many favorite passages that impressed themselves almost without effort on his brain, that all the world seemed to shape itself into forms of Elizabethan tragedy or comedy and his very thoughts were in blank verse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)