say it: jak-uh-BEE-uhn
jacobean is a noun and adjective meaning "any distinguished personage during the reign of James I". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any distinguished personage during the reign of James I
of or relating to James I or his reign or times
“Jacobean writers”
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 jacobean 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.