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# elizabethan

adjective (no comparative in common use)

«elizabethan» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Belonging to the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England, or in the style of that time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elizabethan/#m1)

### In the lessons

in lessons about old plays and tales; the words «thous» and «werts» sound Elizabethan

### Examples

- The old play is Elizabethan in style. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elizabethan/#x1)
- Some plays from that time are called Elizabethan drama. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elizabethan/#x2)
- I modernised the spelling of the Elizabethan tale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elizabethan/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «elizabethan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elizabethan/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«elizabethan» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/elizabethan.html) on Mova free.