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Definition: Elizabeth I |
Elizabeth INoun1. Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded the Catholic Mary I and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Elizabeth ISynonym: Elizabeth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Elizabeth I |
| English words defined with "Elizabeth I": Anne Boleyn, Antonio Ghislieri ♦ Boleyn ♦ Edmund Spenser, Elizabethan, Elizabethan age ♦ House of Tudor ♦ James I ♦ Lovelock ♦ Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart ♦ Pius V ♦ Ralegh, Raleigh ♦ Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Spenser, Spur-royal ♦ Tudor ♦ Walter Ralegh, Walter Raleigh. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Elizabeth I": Dying Sayings ♦ Hal ♦ Queen of Hearts ♦ Seven Champions of Christendom ♦ Vicar of Bray. (references) |
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Clever | I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. (references; author: Elizabeth I) Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. (references; author: Elizabeth I) Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. (references; author: Elizabeth I) For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. (references; author: Elizabeth I) I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England, too. (references; author: Elizabeth I) | |
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Elizabeth I | I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. |
| Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. | |
| Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. | |
| I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England, too. | |
| For me it will be enough that a marble stone should declare that a queen having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. | |
| Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. | |
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Economic History | United Kingdom | While maintaining separate parliaments, England and Scotland were ruled under one crown beginning in 1603, when James VI of Scotland succeeded his cousin Elizabeth I as James I of England. (references) |
Gambia, The | In 1588, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, Antonio, Prior of Crato, sold exclusive trade rights on The Gambia River to English merchants; this grant was confirmed by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I. In 1618, King James I granted a charter to a British company for trade with The Gambia and the Gold Coast (now Ghana). (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
queen elizabeth i | 253 |
elizabeth i | 218 |
elizabeth i picture queen | 22 |
elizabeth i of england | 10 |
elizabeth i rainha | 3 |
elizabeth i queen virgin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "elizabeth i"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | elizabethay iay.(various references) | |
Thai | สมเ"็จพระราชินีนาถแห่งอังกฤษช่วงปี ค.ศ.1558-1603. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-i-i-l-t-z" | |
-4 letters: albeit, albite, bailee, bailie, bethel, blithe, habile, halite, lithia, teazel, teazle, tibiae, tibial, zibeth. | |
-5 letters: abele, alibi, baith, baize, bathe, belie, betel, bezel, bezil, biali, blate, blaze, bleat, blite, blitz, elate, elite, habit, hazel, laith, lathe, lathi, lethe, litai, lithe, table, telae, telia, thebe, tibia, zibet. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 69 7A 61 62 65 74 68 49 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100001 01100010 01100101 01110100 01101000 00100000 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l i z a b e t h   I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0069 007A 0061 0062 0065 0074 0068 0049 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397875926768718674243 |
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