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shakespeare | v |

As a proper noun shakespeare

is .

As a noun shakespeare

is (uncountable) eloquent language, especially english; poetry.

As a letter v is

the twenty-second letter of the.

As a symbol v is

the volt in the international system of 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, ...

    v

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Minuscule variation of Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .

    Letter

  • The twenty-second letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script) * (select symbols) * (other scripts) Cyrillic * (wikipedia "v")

    Etymology 2

    Lower case form of upper case roman numeral V, from abbreviation of IIII? or IIIIV (representing 5), from tally stick markings resembling \\\\? or ////?, from the practice of designating each fifth notch with a double cut, like the corresponding Western tally mark,

    Alternative forms

    * V,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number five (5).
  • See also

    * Previous: iv (4) * Next: vi (6) *

    Etymology 3

    Symbol

    (head)
  • velocity
  • ).
  • See also

    {{Letter , page=V , NATO=Victor , Morse=···– , Character=V , Braille=? }} Image:Latin V.png, Capital and lowercase versions of V , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter V.png, Uppercase and lowercase V in Fraktur ----