NOUN
- a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
How To Use Elizabethan age In A Sentence
- England stood forth as the centre of opposition against Philip, and under the unwilling leadership of Elizabeth entered on its epic period of heroism, was stimulated to that remarkable outburst of energy and intellect and power which we call the Elizabethan age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
- The Elizabethan age was a time of exploration and discovery.
- Euphuism of the Elizabethan age, and of the modern French romanticists, its neologies were the ground of one of the favourite charges against it; though indeed, as regards these tricks of taste also, there is nothing new, but a quaint family likeness rather, between the Euphuists of successive ages. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
- We refer to entire eras in history of the United Kingdom as the Elizabethan age, or the Victorian period.
- While not quite up to the neologisitic prowess of a certain wordsmith of the Elizabethan Age, a noted U.S. statesperson has gotten a good deal of notoriety for her contribution to the English language. Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
- The Elizabethan age was a time of exploration and discovery.
- The Elizabethan age was a time of exploration and discovery.
