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# elizabethan

«elizabethan» in Mova's school dictionary: **Belonging to the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no comparative in common use)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elizabethan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elizabethan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.