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Wilhelm I

British  
/ ˈvɪlhɛlm /

noun

  1. the German name of William I

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Wilhelm I was the emperor of Germany, but also king in Prussia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

German emperor Wilhelm I ceded his rights to the Tiergarten, a royal hunting park, and made it part of the city of Berlin in 1881.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Kaiser Wilhelm I was a die-hard Prussian who despised the notion of German unity.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Amber Room was an ornate chamber made of amber panels given to Czar Peter the Great by Prussia's Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1716.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2015

"I will not demonstrate anything," said Wilhelm; "I will merely show you what my own conceptions of it are."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

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