Associations to the word «Elizabethan»

Wiktionary

ELIZABETHAN, adjective. Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
ELIZABETHAN COLLAR, noun. A protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.
ELIZABETHAN COLLAR, noun. A fluted frill worn at the neck; a ruff.
ELIZABETHAN COLLARS, noun. Plural of Elizabethan collar
ELIZABETHAN ENGLISH, proper noun. (colloquial) The dialect of English spoken during the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
ELIZABETHAN SONNET, noun. A Shakespearean sonnet
ELIZABETHAN SONNETS, noun. Plural of Elizabethan sonnet

Dictionary definition

ELIZABETHAN, noun. A person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan".
ELIZABETHAN, adjective. Of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen; "Elizabethan music".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats