Wilson

noun

1. Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)

• Syn: ↑Alexander Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑ornithologist, ↑bird watcher

2. English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)

• Syn: ↑Sir Angus Wilson, ↑Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author

3. Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)

• Syn: ↑Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑nuclear physicist

4. United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)

• Syn: ↑E. O. Wilson, ↑Edward Osborne Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑entomologist, ↑bugologist, ↑bug-hunter

5. United States literary critic (1895-1972)

• Syn: ↑Edmund Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑literary critic

6. author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)

• Syn: ↑Harriet Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author

7. American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)

• Syn: ↑James Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American Revolutionary leader

8. Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)

• Syn: ↑John Tuzo Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑geophysicist

9. a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)

• Syn: ↑Mount Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑mountain peak

• Part Holonyms: ↑San Juan Mountains

10. 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)

• Syn: ↑Woodrow Wilson, ↑Thomas Woodrow Wilson, ↑President Wilson

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Wilsonian

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑President of the United States, ↑United States President, ↑President, ↑Chief Executive

11. United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)

• Syn: ↑Robert Woodrow Wilson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑physicist