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单词 shakespeare
释义

Shakespearen.

/ˈʃeɪkspiːə/
Etymology: < the name of William Shakespeare: see Shakespearean adj. (and n.)
A person (occasionally a thing) comparable to Shakespeare, esp. as being pre-eminent in a particular sphere.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > pre-eminence > [noun] > chief of its or his kind
sunOE
lordOE
princec1225
primatec1384
princessc1390
giant1535
queen1554
first gentleman1584
Prester John1598
arch1605
gigant1610
principate1651
top-stone1659
first lady1677
Shakespeare1821
king1829
prius1882
aristocrat1883
Sun King1971
1821 M. Edgeworth Let. 23 Oct. (1971) 243 Humboldt is the Shakespear of travellers—as much superior in genius to other travellers as Shakespear to other poets.
1859 A. J. Munby Diary 17 Mar. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 28 When..the poetic soul..has learnt..to see the poetic side of all such things, then we may have a Homer of the railway and a Shakespeare of the Ballot.
1905 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 3 The telegraph, the telephone..the Pullman car..the Shakespeares of the inventor-tribe, so to speak.
1931 R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 36 A Fabian Shakespeare of the Summer Schools To other poets laying down my rules.

Compounds

Shakespeare collar n. (a) = polo collar n. at polo n.2 Compounds 2; (b) (see quot. 1960).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering or next to neck > collar > types of
chevesailec1400
roll collar1832
coat-collar1833
bertha1842
step-roll1881
open-neck1894
step-collar1895
button-down1897
turtle-neck1897
Shakespeare collar1907
polo collar1909
shawl collar1913
polo neck1924
mandarin collar1952
petal collar1957
polo1967
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar > types of > other
rabat1578
falling band1581
rebato1589
fall1598
piccadill1607
golilla1673
collarettea1685
banda1700
turn-over1716
Vandyke1755
falling-down collar1758
falling collar1770
fall-down?1796
yoke collar1817
rabatine1821
dicky1830
dog collar1852
Piccadilly collar1853
all-rounder1854
all round1855
turnover collara1861
Quaker collar1869
Eton collar1875
Toby collar1885
Eton1887
sailor collar1895
roll-neck1898
Shakespeare collar1907
polo collar1909
white-collar1910
tab collar1928
Peter Pan collar1948
tie-neck1968
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 873/1 Cotton Football Shirts..Shakespeare collar, and three buttons.
1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. v. 209 In his blue serge suit, wearing what the shops called a Polo or Shakespeare collar, Michael felt more at ease.
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 192/1 Shakespeare collar. 1860's on. A shallow turn-over collar, the points projecting downwards onto the shirt-front.
Shakespeare country n. the part of Warwickshire around Stratford-on-Avon, birthplace of Shakespeare.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England
wealdOE
Oxon.c1439
the Stannaries1455
Midland1555
Home Counties1695
Islandshire1705
lakes1774
file1775
potteries1795
the Shires1796
Tyneside1824
lakeland1829
Lake District1835
lake country1842
Wessex1868
Shakespeare country1900
Geordieland1901
cherry country1902
1900 J. Leyland Shakespeare Country 92 This survey of Shakespeare Country has traversed a rich district of middle England that was familiar to the great poet in his boyhood.
1966 J. Wainwright Crystallised Carbon Pig iv. 20 The plan worked..as smoothly..as an American tourist's trip through the Shakespeare country.
1972 Times 4 Aug. 4/2 The ‘Shakespeare country’ around Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford and Cambridge are the main non-metropolitan attractions.
Shakespeare industry n. the large-scale production of writings about Shakespeare, items commemorating Shakespeare, etc.; the commercial exploitation of objects, places, etc., associated with Shakespeare.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > commercialization of specific writer
Shakespeare industry1939
1939 Brown & Fearon (title) Amazing monument: a short history of the Shakespeare industry.
1958 Listener 2 Oct. 523/1 Is not much of this book~making on the Bard another branch of the Shakespeare industry?
1962 Observer 4 Mar. 13/6 The 1864 affair..marked the dawn of the Shakespeare industry. At Stratford..‘streets were adorned with flags and banners; the townsfolk and visitors wore the..Shakespeare badge’, [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈShakespeare v. (intransitive) to act in a Shakespeare play.Apparently an isolated use.
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1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 349/1 Madame de Navarro has declaimed, spouted, statuesqued, Shakespeared, and all the rest of it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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