ELIZABETHAN


Meaning of ELIZABETHAN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Elizabethan age (= the period 1558–1603 when Elizabeth I was queen of England )

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

theatre

In June, three plays will be launched when the open-air Elizabethan Theatre opens its doors.

The largest is the 1, 200-seat, open-air Elizabethan Theatre .

times

Here, too, the village has gone - probably deserted by Elizabethan times .

It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century, but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times .

The Tudor wing was constructed in Elizabethan times , and now features various permanent and temporary exhibitions.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In the longer term, it was Reformed rather than Lutheran theology that came to dominate Elizabethan Protestantism.

Mainly Elizabethan house with walls of Norman Castle.

Part of the present farmhouse is Elizabethan .

Shakespeare wrote Elizabethan profanity into his plays.

The position of Spenser's Elizabethan gentleman is revealed to be a precarious one.

The second Elizabethan Age had slumped into depression.

This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience.

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