Elizabethan

Other forms: Elizabethans; Elizabethanly

Definitions of Elizabethan
  1. adjective
    of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen
    “Elizabethan music”
  2. noun
    a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I
    “William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan”
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    type of:
    individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
    a human being
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