bardolator
/bɑɹˈdɑlətɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of bardolator.
Example Sentences
- "Was Williams enjoying a philistine practical joke at the expense of an intrusive antiquary and transparently naive bardolator?"
- "To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile."
- "[…] such rhetorical elision drew attention less to Aveling's literary and political insight than to his dubious borrowing of the all too available cloak of sentimentality in which Shakespeare was prone to be dressed by bardolators of the Marie Corelli school."
- "There would be the dinosaurs still plugging away at scholarship everyone else had abandoned thirty years ago, the hotshot theory heads with their jargon, the Bardolators (often stray actors) and those who treated them as unthinking fans."
- "I keep returning to Shakespeare in the chapters that follow not because I am a Bardolator (I am) but because he is inescapable for all who came after, in all nations of the world except France, where Stendhal and Victor Hugo went against their country's neoclassical rejection of what was regarded as dramatic "barbarism"."
- "Although Bardolators may imagine he is an infallible guide to psychology, Shakespeare either did not understand the heritability of personality traits, or chose to ignore it for comedic purposes."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɑɹˈdɑlətɚ/
- British English: /bɑːˈdɒlətə/