Usually means: Renowned playwright of English literature.
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  1. Shakespeare: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shakespeare: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Shakespeare: Vocabulary.com
  4. Shakespeare, shakespeare: Wordnik
  5. Shakespeare: Wiktionary
  6. Shakespeare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Shakespeare: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. shakespeare: Dictionary.com
  9. Shakespeare: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Shakespeare (Anthony Burgess), Shakespeare (album), Shakespeare (crater), Shakespeare (disambiguation), Shakespeare (programming language), Shakespeare (surname), Shakespeare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Shakespeare: Rhymezone
  12. Shakespeare: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  13. shakespeare: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shakespeare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Shakespeare: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Shakespeare: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shakespeare)

noun:  A surname.
noun:  William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
noun:  (metonymically) His works or media adaptations of his works.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
noun:  A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.
noun:  (uncountable) Any form or style of language that is eloquent, especially in English; poetry.
noun:  (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare.
verb:  (intransitive) To act or perform in a play of the works of Shakespeare.

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