Jacobean
pronunciation
How to pronounce Jacobean in British English:
UK [ˌdʒækəˈbi:ən]
How to pronounce Jacobean in American English:
US [ˌdʒækəˈbiən]
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- Noun:
- any distinguished personage during the reign of James I
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to James I or his reign or times
Word Origin
- Jacobean
- 1770, literally "of James" (king or apostle), later especially "of the literary and architectural style of the time of James I" (1844). See James.
Example
- 1. One feels in reading them that the writer had studied the elizabethan and jacobean dramatists , and that they harmed as well as helped him .