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Elizabethan

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Etymology

 
One of the Armada Portraits (1588) of Elizabeth I, who reigned from 1558 to 1603.
 
Elizabeth II, who reigned from 1952 to 2022, opening the Senedd Cymru or Welsh Parliament on 14 October 2021.

From Elizabeth +‎ -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns),[1] referring to Elizabeth I (1533–1603) and Elizabeth II (1926–2022).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iːθən
  • Hyphenation: Eliz‧a‧beth‧an

Adjective

Elizabethan (comparative more Elizabethan, superlative most Elizabethan)

  1. Pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
    Synonym: Elizabethian
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Justifiably Angry Young Man”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 93:
      […] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children".
    • 2014 September 7, “Doddington’s garden pyramid is a folly good show: The owners of a Lincolnshire stately home have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid [print edition: Great pyramid of Lincolnshire, 6 September 2014, page G2]”, in Jason Seiken, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 June 2021:
      [T]he owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.
  2. Often preceded by new or second: pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
    • 2015 September 9, Alexandra Petri, “I loved the Elizabethan era so much I decided to live in it”, in The Washington Post‎[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      (The second Elizabethan era, that is. I’m not a maniac.)
    • 2017 February 19, Peter Webster, “The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II [book review]]”, in LSE Review of Books‎[3], archived from the original on 26 February 2022:
      Not everything that occurred in the early 1950s may usefully be dubbed ‘New Elizabethan’ without emptying the concept of its meaning. […] [I]t becomes clear that British people in the 1950s looked all over for resources to fund their thinking and actions, including to Tudor revivals that were in fact much older, such as in music, and to several periods of the past that were not Elizabethan.
    • 2021 April 13, Polly Toynbee, “This is a moment to mark the Elizabethan era, and ask what Britain has become”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 August 2022:
      The Elizabethan age is slowing drawing to a close. The end of Prince Philip's long life is a dress rehearsal for its final curtain, when the country will find itself reviewing what it has become, the choices it has made. […] There is just time to see off the rotten party that brought the country low, and end the Elizabethan era with some of the optimism with which it began.
    • 2022 September 8, Laura Clancy, “Queen Elizabeth II: The End of the ‘New Elizabethan Age’”, in Jo Adetunji, editor, The Conversation‎[5], archived from the original on 8 September 2022:
      [T]he austerity and restraint of the 1940s was giving way to a more prosperous 1950s. It is perhaps no wonder, then, that the Queen's succession was hailed as the "new Elizabethan age". […] The Queen's death is bound to prompt Britain's reflection on its past, its present and its future. Time will tell what the reign of Charles III will look like, but one thing is for sure: the "new Elizabethan age" is long gone.
    • 2022 September 8, Liz Truss, “Prime Minister’s Statement on the Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”, in Government of the United Kingdom‎[6], archived from the original on 8 September 2022:
      Today the Crown passes—as it is has done for more than a thousand years—to our new monarch, our new head of state: His Majesty King Charles III. […] And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country,—exactly as Her Majesty would have wished—by saying the words … God save the King.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Elizabethan (plural Elizabethans)

  1. A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
  2. A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
    • 2017 February 19, Peter Webster, “The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II [book review]]”, in LSE Review of Books‎[7], archived from the original on 26 February 2022:
      The ‘New Elizabethans’ were to be in continuity with their past, but also youthful, inventive, exploratory – a spirit most clearly to be seen in the arts.

Translations

References

  1. ^ “Elizabethan, adj. and n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2022; “Elizabethan, adj. and n..”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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