1. William - Noun
2. William - Proper noun
A surname.
William
(World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter W.
Synonym: Whiskey
A male given name from the Germanic languages popular since the Norman Conquest.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWilliam Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. Benjamin Disraeli
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. William Butler Yeats
William James used to preach the "will-to-believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will-to-doubt." None of our beliefs are quite true; all at least have a penumbra of vagueness and error. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell
I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. Denzel Washington
William Hazlitt, in Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims. Thai Proverb