Synonyms:
Gilbert, Cass_Gilbert
Meaning: United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
Synonyms:
Gilbert, Humphrey_Gilbert, Sir_Humphrey_Gilbert
Meaning: English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
Synonyms:
Gilbert, William_Gilbert
Meaning: English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
Synonyms:
Gilbert, William_Gilbert, William_S._Gilbert, William_Schwenk_Gilbert, Sir_William_Gilbert
Meaning: a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
Synonyms:
gilbert, Gb, Gi
Meaning: a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
Usage examples
Gilbert K. Chesterton.
"Gilbert looks very young for a doctor.
"He's Gilbert Blythe," said Marilla contentedly.
"But, Gilbert, people cannot live by furniture alone.
At last, however, poor Gilbert was trapped and slain.
This indeed was Gilbert's business as well as her own.
Boyle was a great experimenter, a worthy follower of Dr. Gilbert.
There goes Gilbert Blythe on his wheel . . . home for his vacation too, I suppose.
He was rich, to be sure, and Gilbert is poor--at least, to begin with; but then he's an Island boy."
Yet just before she left Patty's Place for Convocation she flung Roy's violets aside and put Gilbert's lilies-of-the-valley in their place.