What are the words Shakespeare contributed to English?

Answer 1

Words:

1. accommodation 2. aerial 3. amazement 4. apostrophe 5. assassination 6. auspicious 7. baseless 8. bloody 9. bump 10. castigate 11.changeful 12. clangor 13. control (noun) 14. countless 15. courtship 16. critic 17. critical 18. dexterously 19. dishearten 20. dislocate 21. dwindle 22. eventful 23. exposure 24. fitful 25. frugal 25. generous 26. gloomy 27. gnarled 28. hurry 29. impartial 30. inauspicious 31. indistinguishable 32. invulnerable 33. lapse 34. laughable 35. lonely 36. majestic 37. misplaced 38. monumental 39. multitudinous 40. obscene 41. palmy 42. perusal 43. pious 44. premeditated 45. radiance 46. reliance 47. road 48. sanctimonious 49. seamy 50. sportive 51. submerge 52. suspicious

Phrases:

1. There's method in his madness

2. Gilding the lily

3. All that glitters is not gold

4. What the dickens

Names:

1. Jessica

2. Olivia

3. Cordelia

4. Miranda

Answer 2

Although Shakespeare is credited with "creating" as many as 1700 words, most of these are words which first appeared in print in his works. Also, most of them were variations on words which were already well-known, so it would be easy for the audience to make the connection. For example, the word "assassin" was well-known, but we do not know anyone before Shakespeare who used the related word "assassination". Or sometimes, a word existed but Shakespeare is the first person credited with using it in a new sense.

Here are some of Shakespeare's more original coinages: "eyeball" (The Tempest), "bedazzled" (Taming fo the Shrew), "lackluster" (As You Like It), "motionless" (Henry V), "new-fangled" (Love's Labour's Lost), "sanctimonious" (Measure for Measure), "schoolboy" (Julius Caesar), "whirligig" (Twelfth Night)

He also coined a large number of words which never caught on. You can usually guess what they mean from the context: words like superserviceable, bubukles, incarnadine, or credent. Then there are the words that just make you scratch your head. One wonders if the audience's of Shakespeare's day did the same. Things like "He wears his honour in a box, unseen, that hugs his kicky-wicky here at home." (All's Well that Ends Well) "Kicky-wicky"?

Answer 3

One of the words he made is the word assasination. I'm not sure which play he used it first in. no mate its not this answer

Answer 4

Shakespeare invented the words "Assassination" and "Bump"