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ELIZABETHAN AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Elizabethan age mean?
• ELIZABETHAN AGE (noun)
The noun ELIZABETHAN AGE has 1 sense:
1. a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
Familiarity information: ELIZABETHAN AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
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