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Many words in English were coined by William Shakespeare.

Here is a very small list of words he invented:

  1. Accused
  2. Addiction
  3. Advertising
  4. Amazement
  5. Arouse
  6. Assassination
  7. Bandit
  8. Bedroom
  9. Beached
  10. Blanket
  11. Bump
  12. Cater
  13. Champion
  14. Countless
  15. Epileptic
  16. Fixture
  17. Flawed
  18. Generous
  19. Hint
  20. Lonely
  21. Mimic
  22. Negotiate
  23. Obscene
  24. Premeditated
  25. Rant
  26. Puke
  27. summit
  28. swagger
  29. Torture
  30. Varied
  31. Worthless
  32. Zany

Shakespeare knew 4,580 words throughout his life as a normal person like yourself would only know under 2,800
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William Shakespeare was an English writer known as the greatest playwright of all time. Though he did not invent anything in the traditional sense, his works helped standardize modern English language.

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Here are some:

"A rose by any other name . . ."

"What the dickens . . ."

"The world's mine oyster."

"There is method in his madness" ("Though this be madness yet there's method in't")

"Lend me your ears."

"That is the question."

"What fools these mortals be."
Shakespear invented many phrases to add to the English language. One phrase is "green with envy."

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Many words in English were coined by William Shakespeare.

Here is a very small list of words he invented:

  1. Accused
  2. Addiction
  3. Advertising
  4. Amazement
  5. Arouse
  6. Assassination
  7. Bandit
  8. Bedroom
  9. Beached
  10. Blanket
  11. Bump
  12. Cater
  13. Champion
  14. Countless
  15. Epileptic
  16. Fixture
  17. Flawed
  18. Generous
  19. Hint
  20. Lonely
  21. Mimic
  22. Negotiate
  23. Obscene
  24. Premeditated
  25. Rant
  26. Puke
  27. Summit
  28. Torture
  29. Varied
  30. Worthless
  31. Zany
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Words and phrases still in common everyday use.

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11y ago

Eyeball, assassination, "to thine own self be true", "there's method in his madness", "it was Greek to me" and hordes of others.

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He invented the word "assassination"

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