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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

    sayd

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (label)
  • :Remembrest thou what thou sayd''' yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne?'' — — ''The Bowge of Corte'' [http://www.luminarium.org/editions/bowge.htm] (' 1499 )
  • :What thou hast sayd to me. Ham. I must to England, you knowe that — Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1600)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) said , mentioned earlier
    • The most excellent historie of the'' Merchant of Venice, ''with the extreme crueltie of'' Shylocke'', the Jewe, towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets... — A history of the cries of London, Ancient and modern (1884)

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