Shakespeareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Shakespere, Shakspeare, Shakspere (廃れた用法)

語源

Common Middle English surname meaning "spearman", corresponding to shake (“brandish a weapon”) + spear.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪkspɪɹ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪkspɪə/

• ハイフネーション: Shake‧speare

固有名詞

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.

   He is reading Shakespeare.

4. A place name:
   1. A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
   2. A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.

使用する際の注意点

• (William Shakespeare): Note that Shakespeare's manuscripts use a great many different spellings of his surname, too numerous to list here. (At the time, some name spellings were much more variable than today, see Spelling of Shakespeare's name for a list.)

派生語

• Shakespearean

名詞

Shakespeare (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 Shakespeares)

1. (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
   • 1979 October 10, Russell Maker, “Highbrows Ruin Baseball's Language”, in 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, […]

参考

• Category:English terms first attested in Shakespeare