william schwenk gilbert

English Thesaurus

1. a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911) (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	librettist,
definition	:	author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	poet,
definition	:	a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) (noun.person)

derivation	:	gilbertian,
definition	:	of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert (adj.pert)

derivation	:	gilbertian,
definition	:	of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert (adj.pert)