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WILLIAM GILBERT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
Synonyms:
Gilbert; William Gilbert
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 2
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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