Shakespeare
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Common Middle English surname meaning "spearman", corresponding to shake (“brandish a weapon”) + spear.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʃeɪkspɪɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʃeɪkspɪə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: Shake‧speare
Proper noun edit
Shakespeare
- A surname.
- William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
- His works or media adaptations of his works.
- He is reading Shakespeare.
- A place name:
- A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
- A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.
Usage notes edit
- William Shakespeare's manuscripts use a great many different spellings of his surname, too many to list here. (At the time, name spellings were much more variable than today, see Spelling of Shakespeare's name for a list.)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
English playwright
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Noun edit
Shakespeare (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespeares)
- (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
- 1979 October 10, Russell Maker, “Highbrows Ruin Baseball's Language”, in Toledo Blade:
- This may not be poetry, but in competition with "Ryan has good velocity and excellent location" it is pure Shakespeare.
- (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
- 1997, Vivien Allen, Hall Caine: portrait of a Victorian romancer:
- 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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Proper noun edit
Shakespeare m
- Shakespeare (William Shakespeare, English playwright)
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