william gilbert

Noun william gilbert has 2 senses

• william gilbert(n = noun.person) gilbert, sir william gilbert, william s. gilbert, william schwenk gilbert - a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911);
is a kind of librettist, poet

• william gilbert(n = noun.person) gilbert - English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603);
is a kind of doc, doctor, dr., md, medico, physician, physicist