Usually means: Swiss folk hero, expert marksman.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. william tell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. William Tell, William Tell: Merriam-Webster
  3. Tell, William: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. William Tell: Vocabulary.com
  5. William Tell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. William Tell: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Tell, William, william tell: Dictionary.com
  8. William Tell (Rossini), William Tell (TV series), William Tell (disambiguation), William Tell (musician), William Tell (opera), William Tell (play), William Tell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. William tell: Rhymezone
  10. william tell: FreeDictionary.org
  11. william tell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Tell, William, William Tell: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. William Tell: Legal dictionary

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  1. Tell, William, William Tell: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. William Tell, William Tell: Idioms

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  1. William Tell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wikipedia (William Tell)

noun:  a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend.
noun:  a fictional folk hero of Switzerland.
noun:  a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804.
noun:  William John Tell is a rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the piano-rock band Something Corporate.
noun:  a biennial aerial gunnery competition with fighter aircraft held by the United States Air Force in every even-numbered year.
noun:  a hero in Swiss legend.
noun:  (Italian: Guglielmo Tell) a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and Michał Waszyński and starring Gino Cervi, Monique Orban and Paul Muller.
noun:  a 1960 Swiss adventure film directed by Michel Dickoff and Karl Hartl and starring Robert Freitag, Wolfgang Rottsieper and Alfred Schlageter.BFI.org
noun:  a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt, and Erich Kaiser-Titz.
noun:  (German: Wilhelm Tell) a 1934 German-Swiss historical drama film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Emmy Göring.
noun:  a 1903 French silent short film directed by Lucien Nonguet and distributed in France by Pathé Frères.
noun:  an 1825 historical play by the Irish writer James Sheridan Knowles.
noun:  a 2024 epic historical drama written and directed by Nick Hamm, based on the play of the same name by Friedrich Schiller.


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