Elizabethan age

Other forms: Elizabethan ages

Definitions of Elizabethan age
  1. noun
    a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
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    age, historic period
    an era of history having some distinctive feature
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