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"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"en:British fiction",
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"word": "Shakespeareanism"
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{
"word": "Shakespeareanize"
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"word": "Shakespearean sonnet"
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"ref": "1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XI, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…]there were those who had them set far over back—wide-awake men, who wanted a clear prospect; while careless men, who did not know, or care, how their hats sat, had them shaking about in all directions. The various hats, in fact, were quite a Shakespearean study.",
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{
"ref": "1922, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Hole in the Wall”, in The Man Who Knew Too Much […] , London: Cassell and Company, pages 80–81:",
"text": "The boisterous Bulmer playfully made a pass at him with his drawn sword, going forward with the lunge in the proper fencing fashion, and making a somewhat too familiar Shakespearean quotation about a rodent and a Venetian coin.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1973, Gore Vidal, chapter 25, in Burr:",
"text": "Meanwhile, I presided over the Senate. I also dined quite frequently with the President who continued to delight and fascinate me with his conversation, not to mention his wonderful malice which was positively Shakespearean in its variety.",
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"ref": "2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "There was indeed something Shakespearean about both the service in the abbey and the marches that surrounded it. By Shakespearean I mean there was a blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery.",
"type": "quote"
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"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived."
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"(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived."
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"publishing"
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"Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship."
]
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"glosses": [
"Composed of Shakespearean sonnets."
],
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{
"enpr": "shāk-spîrʹē-ən"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃeɪkˈspɪəɹi.ən/",
"tags": [
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},
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"ipa": "/ʃeɪkˈspɪɹi.ən/",
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},
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"rhymes": "-ɪɹiən"
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"word": "Shakespearian"
},
{
"word": "Shakesperian"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "莎士比亞的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Shāshìbǐyà de",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "莎士比亚的"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "莎士比亞作品的"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "Shāshìbǐyà zuòpǐn de",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "莎士比亚作品的"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "莎士比亞風格的"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "Shāshìbǐyà fēnggé de",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "莎士比亚风格的"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "shakespearovský"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "van Shakespeare"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "Shakespearein"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "ŝekspira"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "Shakespearen"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "shakespearien"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "saixpirikós",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "σαιξπηρικός"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "shakespeare-i"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "scespiriano"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "shakespeariano"
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"code": "ja",
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"roman": "Shēkusupia no",
"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "シェークスピアの"
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "шекспировски"
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "Szekspirowski"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "shakespeariano"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "шекспи́ровский"
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
"word": "шекспи́рский"
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
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"word": "шѐкспӣрскӣ"
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"word": "шекспирѝја̄нскӣ"
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"word": "šekspirìjānskī"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "pertaining to Shakespeare or his works",
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"Rhymes:English/ɪəɹiən",
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"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
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"ref": "1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 341:",
"text": "Another lawyer and well-known Shakespearian, Richard Grant White, says: \"No dramatist of the time, not even [Francis] Beaumont, who was the younger son of a judge of the Common Pleas, and who after studying in the Inns of Court abandoned law for the drama, used legal phrases with Shakespeare's readiness and exactness.[…]\"",
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"A scholar of the works of Shakespeare."
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"A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays."
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}
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"word": "Shakesperian"
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