Elizabethan
pronunciation
How to pronounce Elizabethan in British English:
UK [ɪˌlɪzəˈbi:θn]
How to pronounce Elizabethan in American English:
US [ɪˌlɪzəˈbiθən, -ˈbɛθən]
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- Noun:
- a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to Queen Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled
Word Origin
- Elizabethan (adj.)
- "belonging to the period of Queen Elizabeth I" (1558-1603) of England, 1807 (Elizabethean); Coleridge (1817) has Elizabethian, and Carlyle (1840) finally attains the modern form. The noun is first attested 1859. John Knox, one of the exiles for religion in Switzerland, publiſhed his "Firſt Blaſt of the Trumpet againſt the Government of Women," in this reign [of Elizabeth]. It was lucky for him that he was out of the queen's reach when he ſounded the trumpet. [The Rev. Mr. James Granger, "A Biographical History of England," 1769]
Example
- 1. She dressed up in elizabethan costumes for the fancy-dress ball .
- 2. The house was built during the elizabethan period .
- 3. This seemed fitting , as charities had already been largely exempt from earlier taxes on property since the elizabethan age .
- 4. I have not , however , ruled out going elizabethan and carrying a nosegay or pomander .
- 5. She dress up in elizabethan costume for the fancy dress ball .