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WILSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)
Synonyms:
Mount Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)
Holonyms ("Wilson" is a part of...):
San Juan Mountains (a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains)
Sense 2
Meaning:
28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)
Synonyms:
President Wilson; Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Wilson; Woodrow Wilson
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)
Derivation:
Wilsonian (of or relating to or suggestive of Woodrow Wilson)
Sense 3
Meaning:
United States literary critic (1895-1972)
Synonyms:
Edmund Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
literary critic (a critic of literature)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)
Synonyms:
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)
Synonyms:
E. O. Wilson; Edward Osborne Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
bug-hunter; bugologist; entomologist (a zoologist who studies insects)
Sense 6
Meaning:
American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)
Synonyms:
James Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)
Synonyms:
John Tuzo Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
geophysicist (a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth)
Sense 8
Meaning:
United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)
Synonyms:
Robert Woodrow Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)
Synonyms:
Alexander Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
bird watcher; ornithologist (a zoologist who studies birds)
Sense 10
Meaning:
English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)
Synonyms:
Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson; Sir Angus Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 11
Meaning:
Author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
Synonyms:
Harriet Wilson; Wilson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
James E. Crowe, Jr., M.D., of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, and Ian A. Wilson, D. Phil., of The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, led the team.
(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)
“Oh, he has his faults, too,” said Mr. Wilson.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Have you anything to say, Wilson?
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"We discovered valleys that carried water into lake basins," said Sharon Wilson of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
(Some Ancient Mars Lakes Came Long After Others, NASA)
There were lockers all round, and Wilson, the sham chaplain, knocked one of them in, and pulled out a dozen of brown sherry.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The stone was just broad enough to accommodate, comfortably, another girl and me, at that time my chosen comrade—one Mary Ann Wilson; a shrewd, observant personage, whose society I took pleasure in, partly because she was witty and original, and partly because she had a manner which set me at my ease.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Well, Wilson, any news?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
And, first, one or two questions, Mr. Wilson.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“May I ask,” said the Prince, “what the exact height and weight of Wilson may be?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
