Sir William Gilbert

Definitions of Sir William Gilbert
  1. noun
    a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
    synonyms: Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert
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    librettist
    a writer who creates the scripts for operas and musicals
    poet
    a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
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