Wilson

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. A city of east-central North Carolina east of Raleigh. It is a trade and processing center. Population: 47,400.
2. Wilson, August 1945-2005. American playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fences (1985) and The Piano Lesson (1987).
3. Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees 1869-1959. British physicist. He shared a 1927 Nobel Prize for devising the cloud chamber.
4. Wilson, Edith Bolling 1872-1961. First Lady of the United States (1915-1921) as the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She was actively involved in government during the serious illness of her husband (1919-1920).
5. Wilson, Edmund 1895-1972. American literary critic whose influential works include Axel's Castle (1931), a study of the symbolist movement, and Patriotic Gore (1962), a critique of literature from the Civil War era.
6. Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson 1860-1914. First Lady of the United States (1913-1914) as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She died during Wilson's first term.
7. Wilson, Harriet 1808-1870? American author whose work Our Nig (1859) was the first novel by an African American published in the United States.
8. Wilson, James 1742-1798. American Revolutionary patriot and jurist. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he later served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1789-1798).
9. Wilson, (James) Harold. Baron Wilson of Rievaulx. 1916-1995. British politician who served as prime minister (1964-1970 and 1974-1976). His administration was marked by turmoil in Rhodesia and Northern Ireland and resistance to a price and income policy. He resigned in 1976.
10. MountWilson A mountain, 1,741.6 m (5,710 ft) high, in the San Gabriel Mountains of southwest California northeast of Pasadena. Its observatory was established in 1904.
11. MountWilson A peak, 4,345 m (14,246 ft) high, in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado.
12. Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow 1856-1924. The 28th President of the United States (1913-1921), whose administration was marked by World War I and the introduction of prohibition. At the Paris Peace Conference (1919) he included the establishment of the League of Nations as a proviso of the Treaty of Versailles. The winner of the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize, he was unable to convince the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty.

Wiktionary

1. n. An English, Scottish and northern Irish patronymic surname.
2. n. A male given name derived from the surname
3. n. Harold Wilson, Labour politician and British Prime Minister

WordNet 3.0

1. n. Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)
2. n. American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)
3. n. United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)
4. n. United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)
5. n. a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)
6. n. English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)
7. n. Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)
8. n. author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
9. n. United States literary critic (1895-1972)
10. n. 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)
11. n. Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)