Get to know Jacobean better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like englishman.
Jacobean in a sentence
Jacobean meaning
- Relating to a Jacob or James.
- Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England, 1567–1625).
Synonyms of Jacobean
Using Jacobean
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to a Jacob or James. | Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England, 1567–1625).
- Useful related words include: king of england, englishman.
- In the example corpus, jacobean often appears in combinations such as: and jacobean, jacobean mansion, the jacobean.
Context around Jacobean
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jacobean
- In this selection, "jacobean" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, original, marvellous, genuine, mansion, architecture and ceiling stand out and add context to how "jacobean" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a marvellous jacobean mansion dating and as peculiarly jacobean can be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jacobean" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jacobean
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The best Jacobean tragedy outside Shakespeare, The Changeling also seems to anticipate film noir. (14 words)
The dramas of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods were developed out of mystery plays. (14 words)
It is a Jacobean mansion that became the city’s Institute of Science, Literature and Art. (16 words)
It is on the market with Knight Frank with a guide price of £1.85 million and is said to date back as far as medieval times, but is designed much like Jacobean architecture after being altered in the late 17th and 20th century. (44 words)
If it were not enough to be a plantation house, museum and rum distillery in one, St. Nicholas Abbey is architecturally unique as well, as it is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the entire Western Hemisphere. (39 words)
Historian Alan Stewart suggests that many of the phenomena now seen as peculiarly Jacobean can be identified more closely with Anne's patronage than with James, who "fell asleep during some of England's most celebrated plays". (37 words)
Example sentences (15)
It is on the market with Knight Frank with a guide price of £1.85 million and is said to date back as far as medieval times, but is designed much like Jacobean architecture after being altered in the late 17th and 20th century.
Class and quality shimmer from every corner of the Jacobean mansion’s exquisite public rooms, which look onto a terrace and enticing heated outdoor pool.
Mrs Peatfield has also given an undertaking that the almost complete original Jacobean ceiling in the foyer to the Darwin Suite will be removed and saved.
Another distillery worth visiting is St. Nicholas Abbey Great House Plantation and Distillery, a marvellous Jacobean mansion, dating back to 1660.
If it were not enough to be a plantation house, museum and rum distillery in one, St. Nicholas Abbey is architecturally unique as well, as it is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the entire Western Hemisphere.
It is a Jacobean mansion that became the city’s Institute of Science, Literature and Art.
The best Jacobean tragedy outside Shakespeare, The Changeling also seems to anticipate film noir.
The grounds of this Jacobean manor house will host both celebrated reggae acts and emerging talent, with a bit of comedy thrown in for good measure.
During this period and into the Jacobean era that followed, the English theatre reached its highest peaks.
He was accepted to Columbia University in New York and specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, graduating with an M.A. in 1962.
Historian Alan Stewart suggests that many of the phenomena now seen as peculiarly Jacobean can be identified more closely with Anne's patronage than with James, who "fell asleep during some of England's most celebrated plays".
In England, Elizabethan and Jacobean plays frequently included music, Lord 2003, p. 41 and short musical plays began to be included in an evenings' dramatic entertainments.
The dramas of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods were developed out of mystery plays.
The framing of the woodcut image of Vasari 's Lives of the Artists would be called " Jacobean " in an English-speaking milieu.
The Peterhouse Partbooks, music manuscripts from the early years of the Chapel, survive, and are one of the most important collections of Tudor and Jacobean church music.
Common combinations with jacobean
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: