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Noun: William Gilbert
  1. A librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
    - W. S. Gilbert, Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert
     
  2. English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
    - Walter Gilbert, Gilbert

Type of: doc [informal], doctor, Dr., librettist, MD, medico [informal], physician, physicist, poet

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