Elizabeth
eli·za·beth
noun
Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
Origin
From Middle English Elizabeth, from the Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of the Old Testament Biblical Hebrew אלישבע (ʔĕlîšeḇaʕ, “my God is an oath”).
Phrases
- Cape Elizabeth
- Elizabeth Bay
- Elizabeth Beach
- Elizabeth City
- Elizabeth Hills
- Elizabeth Town
- Port Elizabeth
Related words
Word family
- Elizabethan
- Elizabethan age
- Elizabethan sonnet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell
- Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Elizabeth Haldane
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth II
- Elizabeth Merriwether Gilmer
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
- Elizabeth Peabody
- Elizabeth River
- Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane
Broader terms
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