Meaning of Shakespeare | Babel Free

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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