Shakespeare

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Any form or style of language that is eloquent, especially in English; poetry.
   uncountable
3. William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
4. A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare.
   countable
5. His works or media adaptations of his works.
   metonymically
6. A place name:
7. A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
8. A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.

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Examples

“The name⟳ Shakespeare occurs from the 13th century on in the records of various English counties. The first Shakespeare as yet discovered in Warwickshire is one Thomas, a felon, who fled from the law in 1359. Toward the end⟳ of the fourteenth century there were landed Shakespeares at Baddesley, and this family held its own⟳ into the sixteenth.”

“He is reading Shakespeare.”

“I'm surprised that even the allusion to Hamlet flew over his head. Even someone who barely knows Shakespeare might catch⟳ that one!”

“This may not be poetry, but in competition with "Ryan has good velocity and excellent location" it is pure Shakespeare.”

“Caine, he said, might be a budding Shakespeare but in Shakespeare's time all it took to put⟳ on a play⟳ was a barn, a crude stage⟳, […]”

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