Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun roger_williams

1 sense of roger williams

Sense 1
Williams, Roger Williams -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth -- (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
       INSTANCE OF=> settler, colonist -- (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)