Elizabethan

Definitions: Elizabethan

Elizabethan

Adjective

1. Of or relating to Queen Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled; "Elizabethan music".

Noun

1. A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan".

Date "Elizabethan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Crosswords: Elizabethan

English words defined with "Elizabethan": admissive ♦ Backare, bawdry, bawdy ♦ Elizabethan age, Elizabethan sonnet, euphuism ♦ Golden Age, groundling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Elizabethan": Podsnap ♦ SHAKESPEARE. (references)

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Modern Usage: Elizabethan

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's a tragedy of Elizabethan proportions. (Beautiful Girls; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)
Movie/TV Titles	An Elizabethan Romance (1912)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Elizabethan

Domain	Title
Books	Barley Break: An Elizabethan Songbook With Arrangements for the Appalachian Dulcimer (reference) Elizabethan Sea Dogs 1560-1605 (Elite Series, 70) (reference) Elizabethan World Picture (reference) Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer (reference) Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Bawdy Elizabethan Evening in Merrie Olde England (reference) What then is love? An Elizabethan Songbook (reference) Elizabethan & Jacobean Lute Songs (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Elizabethan

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Photo Album: Elizabethan

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Man in Elizabethan dress.Credit: Library of Congress.		Study with portrait of woman in Elizabethan dress, over fireplace, fringe lamp at right, and buffalo statue on left; elk head on wall and grandfather clock in background, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Study with portrait of woman in Elizabethan dress, over fireplace, and curved sofa at right, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Elizabethan

"Elizabethan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.36% of the time. "Elizabethan" is used about 235 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	89.36%	210	20,939
Noun (singular)	8.09%	19	80,337
Noun (proper)	2.55%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	235	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Elizabethan

Expressions using "Elizabethan": elizabethan age ♦ elizabethan sonnet ♦ the elizabethan period. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Elizabethan": elizabethan-style.
	Ending with "Elizabethan": late-elizabethan, neo-elizabethan, pre-elizabethan.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Elizabethan

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
elizabethan	92
elizabethan theater	85
elizabethan era	82
elizabethan costume	66
elizabethan england	58
elizabethan collar	48
elizabethan classics	45
elizabethan times	39
elizabethan clothing	36
elizabethan fashion	30
elizabethan food	30
elizabethan age	26
elizabethan recipe	21
dress elizabethan	17
elizabethan music	17
elizabethan inn	14
elizabethan period	13
costuming elizabethan	12
elizabethan drama	12
elizabethan sports	11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Elizabethan

Language		Translations for "Elizabethan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i epokës së mbretëreshës elizavetës. (various references)

Arabic		‏اليصاباتي. (various references)

Chinese		伊丽莎白女王. (various references)

Czech		alžbìtinský. (various references)

French		élisabéthain. (various references)

Greek		ελισαβετιανόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		erzsébet korabeli. (various references)

Italian		elisabettiano. (various references)

Manx		Ealisaidagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		elizabethanay

Portuguese		elixir (arcanum). (various references)

Russian		эпохи королевы елизаветы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jelisavetinog doba. (various references)

Spanish		isabelino. (various references)

Swedish		elisabetansk. (various references)

Thai		เกี่ยวกับส� าพชีวิตของผู้คนในสมัยสมเ�"็จพระราชินีนาถอะลิซาเบ็ธที่ 1, คนอังกฤษโ�"ยเฉพาะนักเขียนในสมัยสมเ�"็จพระราชินีนาถอะลิซาเบ็ธที่ 1. (various references)

Turkish		elizabet dönemine ait, elizabet döneminde yaşamış olan kimse. (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� văn thuộc triều nữ ho� ng Ê-li-gia-bét I, người thuộc triều nữ ho� ng Ê-li-gia-bét I. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Elizabethan

Misspellings
	"Elizabethan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elizabeta, Elizabetha, Elizabethe, elizabethian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Elizabethan"

Words rhyming with "Elizabethan" (pronounced 'E*liz"a*beth`an'): Airwoman, Birdwoman, Boatwoman, Bondswoman, Bondwoman, Charwoman, Countrywoman, Dairywoman, Daywoman, Englishwoman, Fishwoman, forewoman, gentlewoman, Herb-woman, Herdswoman, horsewoman, kinswoman, Needlewoman, Noblewoman, Penwoman, saleswoman, Shopwoman, stateswoman, Tire-woman, Tradeswoman, Washerwoman, Workwoman. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Elizabethan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-i-l-n-t-z"
	-3 letters: alienate, anthelia, banalize, hateable, heatable, thebaine, zenithal.
	-4 letters: abelian, beneath, benthal, betaine, blintze, eatable, habitan, hatable, labiate, lethean, lineate, taeniae, tenable, theelin.
	-5 letters: abelia, ablate, ablaze, albeit, albite, althea, bailee, baleen, banzai, beanie, beaten, benzal, bethel, bezant, binate, blintz, blithe, enable, entail, ethane, habile, halite, hantle, henbit, hiatal, inhale, lanate, lateen, taenia, teazel, teazle, tenail, teniae, theine, thenal, tineal, zeatin, zenith, zibeth.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-e-h-i-l-n-t-z"
	+2 letters: thiabendazole.
	+3 letters: thiabendazoles.
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