Shakespeare

English

Proper noun

Wikipedia

Shakespeare

1. A surname.
2. William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
3. 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)

Derived terms

• Shakespearean

Translations

English playwright

• Arabic: شكسبير (ar) (shaksbiir) m
• Armenian: Շեքսպիր (hy) (Šek’spir) 
• Azeri: Şekspir (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 莎士比亞 (cmn), 莎士比亚 (cmn) (Shāshìbǐyà)

• Finnish: Shakespeare (fi)
• Georgian: შექსპირი (ka) (šek’spiri)
• Greek: Σαίξπηρ (el) m (Saíxpir)
• Hebrew: שייקספיר (he)

• Hindi: शेक्सपीयर (hi)
• Japanese: シェイクスピア (ja) (Sheikusupia)
• Korean: 셰익스피어 (ko) (Syeikseupieo)
• Macedonian: Шекспир (mk) (Šékspir) m
• Marathi: शेक्स्पीयर (mr) (śekspīyara)
• Russian: Шекспир (ru) (Šekspír) m 
• Spanish: Shakespeare (es)
• Thai: เชกสเปียร์ (th)
• Turkish: Shakespeare (tr), Şekspir (tr)

Noun

Shakespeare (countable and uncountable; plural Shakespeares)

1. (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
   • 1979 Oct 10, Russell Maker, “Highbrows Ruin Baseball's Language”, Toledo Blade:

     This may not be poetry, but in competition with "Ryan has good velocity and excellent location" it is pure Shakespeare.

2. (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, ...

See also

• Category:Words from Shakespeare