HyperDic: elizabethan_age

English > 1 sense of the expression *Elizabethan age*:
NOUN	time	Elizabethan age	a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century

English > *Elizabethan age*: 1 sense > noun 1, time
Meaning	A period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity.
Instance of	historic period, age	An era of history having some distinctive feature
Adjectives	Elizabethan	of or relating to Elizabeth I of England or to the age in which she ruled as queen