From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Elizabeth \Elizabeth\ prop. n. [a proper name from the Hebrew,
probably meaning " God of the oath" or " oath of God".]
1. Queen Elizabeth II. of the United Kingdom, born 1926.
Syn: Elizabeth II.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Elizabeth I., the Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She
was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn
(1533-1603).
Syn: Elizabeth I.
[WordNet 1.5]
Note: Elizabeth was born at Greenwich, near London, Sept. 7,
1533: died at Richmond, near London, March 24, 1603.
She reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She
was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; was
brought up in the Protestant faith; studied the
classical languages under Roger Ascham; and is said to
have been proficient in French and Italian. On her
accession she appointed as secretary of state Sir
William Cecil (later Baron Burleigh), who remained her
chief adviser for forty years, until his death in 1598.
She repealed the Roman Catholic legislation of the
previous reign, reenacted the laws of Henry VIII.
relating to the church, published the Thirty-nine
Articles (1563), and completed the establishment of the
Anglican Church. In 1564 she concluded the treaty of
Troyes with France, by which she renounced her claims
to Calais in consideration of 220,000 crowns. In 1587
she signed the death-warrant of Mary Queen of Scots,
who, expelled by a rebellion of her subjects, had taken
refuge in England in 1568, and who, by means, it is
said, of forged documents, had been involved by the
government in a conspiracy of Savage, Ballard,
Babington, and others against Queen Elizabeth. In 1588
her admiral Howard, assisted by Drake, Hawkins,
Frobisher, Winter, and Raleigh defeated the Spanish
Armada in the English Channel, and prevented an
invasion of England. Her reign, which was one of
commercial enterprise and of intellectual activity, was
made illustrious by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser,
Bacon, and Ben Jonson.
[Century Dict.]
3. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Born at Presburg, Hungary
1207, died died at Marburg, Germany, Nov. 19, 1231. She
was a Hungarian princess, daughter of Andrew II. of
Hungary, and wife of Louis, landgrave of Thuringia,
celebrated for her sanctity.
[PJC]
4. a city in Union County in northeastern New Jersy, pop. ca.
106,000. It lies between Newark to the north and Linden to
the south, and has a large port, regulated by the Port of
New York Authority. It also contains most of the runway
area of the Newark International Airport.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Elizabeth
n 1: daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and
Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father
(1926-); "Elizabeth II is the head of state in Great
Britain" [syn: {Elizabeth}, {Elizabeth II}]
2: 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) [syn: {Elizabeth}, {Elizabeth I}]
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