WILDER

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• WILDER (noun)
  The noun WILDER has 2 senses:

1. United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)

2. United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)

  Familiarity information: WILDER used as a noun is rare.

• WILDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Thornton Niven Wilder; Thornton Wilder; Wilder

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Billy Wilder; Samuel Wilder; Wilder

Instance hypernyms:

film maker; film producer; filmmaker; movie maker (a producer of motion pictures)

 Context examples 

I think, your Grace, that I could speak more freely in Mr. Wilder’s absence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Could I have imagined when I entered that hall that I was about to pledge myself to a wilder adventure than had ever come to me in my dreams?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From below came the fatal roaring where the wild current went wilder and was rent in shreds and spray by the rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I thought that the longer this went on the wilder he would get, and so would bring on a fit; so I took him by the hand and raised him up.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then the hope died down as he added, shaking his head, "We've had him two weeks now, and if anything he's wilder than ever at the present moment."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But Jim stayed out there for the whole weary week—a wet week it was, too!—and came back at the end of it looking a deal wilder and dirtier than his hero does in the picture-books.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But wilder yet was the cry, and shriller still the scream, when there rose up from the shadow of those silent bulwarks the long lines of the English bowmen, and the arrows whizzed in a deadly sleet among the unprepared masses upon the pirate decks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having sought them in vain among foxglove leaves and bells, under mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth's surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I must see the Duke, Mr. Wilder.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)