elizabethan age

1. 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

   Broaderhistoric period

Questions about elizabethan age

What does elizabethan age mean?

elizabethan age means "a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity".

Is elizabethan age a common word?

elizabethan age is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.