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
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
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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.