William

[wil-yuhm]

noun

1. Prince William Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge, born 1982, heir apparent to the throne of the United Kingdom (son of Charles III).

2. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter W.

3. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “will” and “helmet.”

William

/ ˈwɪljəm /

noun

1. known as William the Lion. ?1143–1214, king of Scotland (1165–1214)

2. Prince. born 1982, Duke of Cambridge, first son of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2011 he married Kate Middleton (born 1982); their son, Prince George, was born in 2013

Example Sentences

He began as a William Morris socialist but quickly became suspicious of any sweeping social panacea, to the point of intellectual haughtiness.

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“What Takaichi has done is say the quiet part out loud,” said William Chou, deputy director of the Japan Chair at the Hudson Institute, a conservative-leaning Washington, D.C., think tank.

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“We expect discussion about the drivers of this outperformance, the non-operating items and book-value growth, and the extent to which the performance is sustainable or can be built from,” analyst William Hawkins writes.

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In the words of historian William Hogeland, he had “a ruthless and intense focus on his own interests, which makes him exactly like every other member of his class; it’s just that he became George Washington.”

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He also said he was pleased there had been no investiture ceremony to mark Prince William becoming Prince of Wales in 2022, saying it could have been "divisive".

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