Shakespeare's plays were written in Elizabethan English.
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Elizabethan
/ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθ(ə)n/
Synonyms for "elizabethan" (16 found)
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Adjective(4 words)
archaic styledated decorumdramatic style of the periodelizabethan citizen
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Adjective(4 words)
elizabethan cultural figureelizabethan figureelizabethan personelizabethan personality
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Adjective(7 words)
late tudor eraliterary style of the eraold fashionedpoetic dictionshakespeareansixteenth-centurytudor-era
Noun(1 words)
shakespearean address
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Elizabethan English is like a foreign language to modern English speakers.
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They are part of an expressive tradition stretching all the way back to Elizabethan pamphlets, with particular roots in fanzines and feminist expression of the 1990s.
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A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
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