(idiomatic) Alternative form of more than one can shake a stick at

To leave a place for good.

(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.

A scholar of the works of Shakespeare. / A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.

(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

A surname. / William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / His works or media adaptations of his works.

(uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry. / (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare

Alternative spelling of Shakespearean

Alternative spelling of Shakespearean

(uncountable, paleologism) The devotion to or the teaching of the works and terminology of William Shakespeare. / (countable) A term coined by Shakespeare, or otherwise derived from his works.