OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 30853

Elizabethan

/ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθ(ə)n/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
isabelino
Often preceded by new or second: pertaining to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
(The second Elizabethan era, that is. I’m not a maniac.)
Some people have expressed the hope that my reign may mark a new Elizabethan age. Frankly I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forbear, […] But there is at least one ver…