Elizabethan

English

Etymology

Elizabeth +‎ -an

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˌlɪzəˈbiːθən/

Adjective

Elizabethan (comparative more Elizabethan, superlative most Elizabethan)

1. Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.

   • 2014 September 7, “Doddington's garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid [print edition: Great pyramid of Lincolnshire, 6 September 2014, p. G2]”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[2], London:

     [T]he owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.

Synonyms

• Elizabethian

Noun

Elizabethan (plural Elizabethans)

1. A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the first.

Derived terms

• Elizabethanism
• Jacobethan
• Tudorbethan

Translations

pertaining to the reign of Elizabeth I of England

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: alžbětinský
• Dutch: elizabethaans
• Esperanto: Elizabeta
• Finnish: elisabetiaaninen
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• French: élisabéthain (fr) m, élisabéthaine (fr) f
• Greek: ελισαβετιανός (el) (elisavetianós)
• Polish: elżbietański (pl)
• Portuguese: elisabetano, isabelino (pt)
• Romanian: elisabetan (ro)
• Spanish: isabelino
• Swedish: elisabetansk