ELIZABETH I

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• ELIZABETH I (noun)
  The noun ELIZABETH I has 1 sense:

1. Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)

  Familiarity information: ELIZABETH I used as a noun is very rare.

• ELIZABETH I (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elizabeth; Elizabeth I

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Elizabeth I" is a member of...):

House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

Derivation:

Elizabethan (of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen)

 Context examples 

Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)