settings

Hamlet vocabulary

1 German vocabulary words

< select a category

show german words

This page requires javascript.

help & settings

[x]

display help icons

show definition by default

show uses by default

Kind: tags: [german]

► definition

Definition:

the Teutonick word for child. Hamlet therefore answers with propriety, to the titles of cousin and son, which the king had given him, that he was somewhat more than cousin, and less than son.

^{Samuel Johnson. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies (1958)}

help with use text

► uses

Uses:

But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son-

Hamlet: [aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind!

William Shakespeare. Hamlet

search:

help with search