Mozart vs Shakespeare - What's the difference?
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By analogy with , a musical virtuoso.
* Sir William Mitchell, The Place of Minds in the World (1933) p. 142:
* Joseph Lane Hancock, Nature Sketches in Temperate America: A Series of Sketches and Popular Account of Insects, Birds,... (1911) p. 103:
* Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (1875) p. 446:
By extension, a virtuoso in any field.
* Ryan A Nerz, Eat This Book: a year of gorging and glory on the competitive eating circuit (2006) p. 67:
* Victor H. Mair, The Columbia History of Chinese Literature (2001) p. 296:
* Lawrence Grobel, Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives (2001):
* Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Surprised by C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Dante: An Array of Original Discoveries (2001) p. 116:
* Noel Bertram Gerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography (1976) p. 86:
(surname)
William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
His works or media adaptations of his works.
(uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
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(countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
* 1997 Vivien Allen, "Hall Caine: portrait of a Victorian romancer?"
As nouns the difference between mozart and shakespeare
is that mozart is by analogy with , a musical virtuoso while shakespeare is (uncountable) eloquent language, especially english; poetry.As proper nouns the difference between mozart and shakespeare
is that mozart is while shakespeare is .mozart
English
Noun
(en noun)- One child is a Mozart with a flying start, while another foots it, and makes little way; but the course is the same, being set by the object.
- He is a Mozart in the insect world, sending out his strain upon the evening air.
- [W]e can understand how a father who is a good musician may have a son who is a Mozart —a genius in music...
- There is a Mozart of competitive eating who is yet to reveal himself.
- Li Po is the most musical, most versatile, and most engaging of Chinese poets, a Mozart of words.
- Joyce Carol Oates has said, "If there is a Mozart of interviewers, Larry Grobel is that individual."
- In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility.
- By the same token, Rembrandt resembled Hawthorne, and the architect who had designed Melrose Abbey was a Mozart among architects.
Derived terms
* MozartkugelReferences
* Duden, Familiennamen: Herkunft und Bedeutung (Kolheim)shakespeare
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Usage notes
* (William Shakespeare) Note that Shakespeare's manuscripts use a great many different spellings of his surname, way too many to list here. (At the time, some name spellings were much more variable than today, see (w, Spelling of Shakespeare's name) for a list.)Derived terms
* (l)Noun
- 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, ...