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As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a proper noun shakespeare is

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As a noun shakespeare is

(uncountable) eloquent language, especially english; poetry.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    shakespeare

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (surname)
  • William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
  • His works or media adaptations of his works.

    • 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

  • (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
  • *
  • (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, ...

    See also

    * English eponyms Words from Shakespeare