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    WILLIAM GILBERT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)play

    Synonyms:

    Gilbert; William Gilbert

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    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)play

    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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