WILLIAMS

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• WILLIAMS (noun)
  The noun WILLIAMS has 6 senses:

1. United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)

2. English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)

3. United States poet (1883-1963)

4. United States baseball player noted as a hitter (1918-2002)

5. English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)

6. United States playwright (1911-1983)

  Familiarity information: WILLIAMS used as a noun is common.

• WILLIAMS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Hank Williams; Hiram King Williams; Hiram Williams; Williams

Instance hypernyms:

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

ballad maker; songster; songwriter (a composer of words or music for popular songs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; Sir Bernard Williams; Williams

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States poet (1883-1963)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

William Carlos Williams; Williams

Instance hypernyms:

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States baseball player noted as a hitter (1918-2002)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ted Williams; Theodore Samuel Williams; Williams

Instance hypernyms:

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Sense 5

Meaning:

English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Roger Williams; Williams

Instance hypernyms:

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

colonist; settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)

Sense 6

Meaning:

United States playwright (1911-1983)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Tennessee Williams; Thomas Lanier Williams; Williams

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

 Context examples 

Yes; it is about Miss Williams, I am sure.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

WINAC also contains the Williams syndrome transcription factor (WSTF).

(Gene Expression Regulation by Vitamin D Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Hemizygosity of the LIMK1 gene is associated with Williams syndrome.

(LIMK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Heterozygous deletion of the FZD3 gene may contribute to the Williams syndrome phenotype.

(Frizzled 9, NCI Thesaurus)

To find out, Williams and Morrison took samples from the main OMT open pit.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

So that, at the end of five days, we found ourselves short but four men—Henderson, Holyoak, Williams, and Kelly,—and were once more hunting on the flanks of the herd.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Here, Watkin of Sowley, Arnold, Long Williams, let us show the rogues that they have English bowmen to deal with.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A standardized survey developed and published by Kurt Kroenke, Robert Spitzer and Janet Williams in 2002 in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine which is used to assess the severity of an individual's somatic symptoms.

(Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 Item, NCI Thesaurus)

For some time back Mawson & Williams, the famous financial house, have been the guardians of securities which amount in the aggregate to a sum of considerably over a million sterling.

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

Williams worked with the JPL team to identify what geologic units on Titan could be determined using first the radar images and then to extrapolate those units to the non-radar-covered regions.

(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)