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

2 senses of william gilbert

Sense 1
Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert -- (a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911))
       INSTANCE OF=> librettist -- (author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta)
       INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 2
Gilbert, William Gilbert -- (English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603))
       INSTANCE OF=> doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico -- (a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor")
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)