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WILLIAM S. GILBERT
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• WILLIAM S. GILBERT (noun)
The noun WILLIAM S. GILBERT has 1 sense:
1. a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
Familiarity information: WILLIAM S. GILBERT used as a noun is very rare.
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))
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