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[ noun ] a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I

Examples

"William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

William_Gilmore_Simms , sturdy realist that he was , pleaded for a natural robustness such_as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans , to vivify the pale writings being produced around him .

Related terms

person

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[ adjective ] of or relating to Queen Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled

Examples

"Elizabethan music"

Related terms

Elizabethan_age Elizabeth

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