Shakespearean

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to William Shakespeare or his works

   Shakespearean plays

2. 2
   adj

   Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

   […]there were those who had them set far over back—wide-awake men, who wanted a clear prospect; while careless men, who did not know, or care, how their hats sat, had them shaking about in all directions. The various hats, in fact, were quite a Shakespearean study.

3. 3
   noun

   A scholar of the works of Shakespeare.

   Another lawyer and well-known Shakespearian, Richard Grant White, says: "No dramatist of the time, not even [Francis] Beaumont, who was the younger son of a judge of the Common Pleas, and who after studying in the Inns of Court abandoned law for the drama, used legal phrases with Shakespeare's readiness and exactness.[…]"

4. 4
   name

   Shakespearean English.

   I have had no one to talk to for ages. There’s Ma, who only talks in Shakespearean. And it took me ages to learn that and I still don’t understand the whole thing.

5. 5
   noun

   a Shakespearean scholar

6. 6
   adj

   Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship.

7. 7
   adj

   Composed of Shakespearean sonnets.

8. 8
   noun

   A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.

Etymology

From Shakespeare + -ean.