Elizabethan
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times.
Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
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noting or pertaining to an English Renaissance style of architecture of the reign of Elizabeth I characterized by fantastic sculptured or molded ornament of German or Flemish origin, symmetrical layouts, and an emphasis on domestic architecture.
noun
adjective
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of, characteristic of, or relating to England or its culture in the age of Elizabeth I or to the United Kingdom or its culture in the age of Elizabeth II
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of, relating to, or designating a style of architecture used in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, characterized by moulded and sculptured ornament based on German and Flemish models
noun
Other Word Forms
- anti-Elizabethan adjective
- half-Elizabethan adjective
- post-Elizabethan adjective
- pro-Elizabethan adjective
- pseudo-Elizabethan adjective
Etymology
Origin of Elizabethan
Example Sentences
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The instrumental consort—three viols, two violins, harpsichord and lute/theorbo—offered an invigorating collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean hits by such contemporaneous composers as William Brade, William Lawes, John Dowland and Anthony Holborne.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
He had written his sister a birthday card in Elizabethan English.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
In the converted barn's main room, Elizabethan ballads drifted through smoke-thick air as someone scattered chrysanthemum petals across a sheepskin rug.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025
Meanwhile, Gatwa has also been cast to play Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025
The Aristotelian system would outlast Alexander's empire; it would survive until Elizabethan times, the sixteenth century.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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