Definition of "Shakespeare"

Shakespeare

/ˈʃeɪkspɪɹ/

proper noun
1. A surname.
2. William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
3. His works or media adaptations of his works.
4. A place name:
  1. A village in Perth East township, Ontario, Canada, named after the playwright.
  2. A ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural Shakespeares
1. (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
  Quotations
  This may not be poetry, but in competition with "Ryan has good velocity and excellent location" it is pure Shakespeare.
  1979 October 10, Russell Maker, “Highbrows Ruin Baseball's Language”, in Toledo Blade
2. (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
  Quotations
  Caine, he said, might be a budding Shakespeare but in Shakespeare's time all it took to put on a play was a barn, a crude stage, […]
  1997, Vivien Allen, Hall Caine: portrait of a Victorian romancer