What were the words shakespeare used and what did they mean?

Answer 1

Methinks thou askest the question, that is the question! Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the words like questions asked and all that is asked is what language dost thee speak? Is that what thou wantest to know? To wonder, to inquire, perhaps to speak and speak as tho' you were innocence herself, the wide eyed beauty of simple questions. What language is it Bill Shakespeare speaks? Why, what language dost thou speak? You knave, you errant fool, your impish inquiry doth answer the question for us all. But look! Look deep into to the well of words that spring out of the gentle bards books. Words. Words, words, words, he uses words. Elizabethan words, what noble words and, like the crown of England, they were English words. Hamlet tho' he be Danish spoke the Queens language just as Othello the Moor and and Julius Caesar! Beware, it was written, beware the ides of March, not in Latin whose tongue did Caesar speak, but Elizabethan for them, the Queen's language for all. So there, your answer kind sir. I thank thee for the question, what wouldst thou want to know, when all there really is to know, is if it hath been said, if it be worthy of any discourse, then rest your restless soul, and be assured that Bill hath said it, he spoke of all there was to speak.

Answer 2

Some of the words coined by Shakespeare are: AbhorApprehension Abate/ment AbideAbridgement Articulate Advise BackwardBaffle Blow Bodge Balm BarnacleBold William Shakespeare coined more than 1,700 new words and new meanings for existing words.It is impossible to know which words were his own as many of them were already spoken until Shakespeare put them onto paper.There is a book called The dictionary of Shakespeare which holds many of the new words which he coined (created).

Answer 3

The word Shakespeare first used was probably "mama" although sometimes this is not the first word a child says. There is no real record of it, so it is mostly guesswork.

If you mean "Which words did Shakespeare have the first recorded use of?" that is a different matter. Quite a lot of words are found in print for the first time in Shakespeare's writing. My favourites are "assassination" and "eyeball".

Answer 4

Shakespeare spoke and wrote in English, which means that almost all of the words he used mean exactly what you think they mean. There are some exceptions, including words we don't use very much any more, words which don't mean what they used to mean, and words which Shakespeare made up and didn't catch on.

Shakespeare also used an awful lot of words, many more than most people use on a regular basis. So some words that might be strange to you might not be to another English speaker.

Shall we test this? Here's a random bit from Much Ado about Nothing

Benedick: I do love nothing in the world so much as you. Is not that strange?

Beatrice: As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you, but believe me not, yet I lie not. I confess nothing nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.

That's from Act 4, Scene 1. Every single word in it is in ordinary common English and means exactly what it says.

Answer 5

Shakespeare used tens of thousands of words in his writing, although the ones he used most are the same ones any other English speaker uses.

Answer 6

elizabethan language