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WILLIAMS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States playwright (1911-1983)
Synonyms:
Tennessee Williams; Thomas Lanier Williams; Williams
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
Roger Williams; Williams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
colonist; settler (a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States baseball player noted as a hitter (1918-2002)
Synonyms:
Ted Williams; Theodore Samuel Williams; Williams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States poet (1883-1963)
Synonyms:
William Carlos Williams; Williams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 5
Meaning:
English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)
Synonyms:
Bernard Arthur Owen Williams; Sir Bernard Williams; Williams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953)
Synonyms:
Hank Williams; Hiram King Williams; Hiram Williams; Williams
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
ballad maker; songster; songwriter (a composer of words or music for popular songs)
Context examples:
We were now in the latitude of 30 degrees south; there were about fifty men in the ship; and here I met an old comrade of mine, one Peter Williams, who gave me a good character to the captain.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The telegram was a list of names and addresses: Lord Harringby, The Dingle; Sir George Ffolliott, Oxshott Towers; Mr. Hynes Hynes, J.P., Purdley Place; Mr. James Baker Williams, Forton Old Hall; Mr. Henderson, High Gable; Rev. Joshua Stone, Nether Walsling.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"And who is Miss Williams?" asked Marianne.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
To find answers, Williams and colleague Keith Morrison of ASU set out to identify naturally-occurring antibacterial clays effective at killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)
It was Henderson’s boat and with him had been lost Holyoak and Williams, another of the deep-water crowd.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"The Cassini mission revealed that Titan is a geologically active world, where hydrocarbons like methane and ethane take the role that water has on Earth," Williams said.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
At last I saw a vacancy at Mawson & Williams’, the great stockbroking firm in Lombard Street.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What! do not you know who Miss Williams is?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
As antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains emerge and pose increasing health risks, says Lynda Williams, a biogeochemist at Arizona State University (ASU), new antibacterial agents are urgently needed.
(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)
