Definition of elizabethan Elizabethan

/ɛˌlɪzʌbiˈθʌn/ - [elizubeethun] - E•liz•a•be•than

We found 8 definitions of elizabethan from 6 different sources.

What does elizabethan mean?

Noun
elizabethan - a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"
		mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism
Adjective
elizabethan - of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen; "Elizabethan music"

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elizabethan (a.)
Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
elizabethan (n.)
One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

elizabethan
Of or pertaining to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times.

elizabethan
e-liz-a-beth′an, adj. pertaining to Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603) or her time—of dress, manners, literature, &c.—n. a poet or dramatist of that age.—Elizabethan architecture, a name applied to the mixed style which sprang up on the decline of Gothic, marked by Tudor bow-windows and turrets decorated with classic cornices and pilasters, long galleries, enormous square windows, large apartments, plaster ceilings wrought into compartments, &c