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Gilbert

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Gilbert

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a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
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English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
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United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
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English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Gilbert
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n a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

Synonyms:
Sir William Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert
Example of:
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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n English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)

Synonyms:
Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Example of:
navigator
in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
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n United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)

Synonyms:
Cass Gilbert
Example of:
architect, designer
someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
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n English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)

Synonyms:
William Gilbert
Example of:
Dr., MD, doc, doctor, medico, physician
a licensed medical practitioner
physicist
a scientist trained in physics
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