Gilbert, Cass Gilbert
(noun) United States architect who influenced the development of the skyscraper (1859-1934)
Gilbert, Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(noun) English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
Gilbert, William Gilbert
(noun) English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert
(noun) a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
gilbert, Gb, Gi
(noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Gilbert
A male given name from Germanic languages.
A surname.
gilbert (plural gilberts)
The CGS unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
Source: Wiktionary
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
