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adj
Pertaining to, or in the style of the dramatist and librettist W. S. Gilbert; ludicrously comic
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
of or pertaining to or characteristic of the style of William S. Gilbert
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas- T.C.Worsley
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History
Etymology tree English Gilbert Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Gilbertian From Gilbert + -ian.
