SIR WILLIAM GILBERT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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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