WILLIAM GILBERT

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• WILLIAM GILBERT (noun)
  The noun WILLIAM GILBERT has 2 senses:

1. a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

2. English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

  Familiarity information: WILLIAM GILBERT used as a noun is rare.

• WILLIAM GILBERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gilbert; Sir William Gilbert; William Gilbert; William S. Gilbert; William Schwenk Gilbert

Instance hypernyms:

librettist (author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 2

Meaning:

English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gilbert; William Gilbert

Instance hypernyms:

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)