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say it: el-i-zuh-BEE-thuhn
elizabethan is a noun and adjective meaning "a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I
“William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan”
of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen
“Elizabethan music”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elizabethan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.