what does William Tell mean?
WILLIAM TELL as NOUN
- Meaning
- a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer
- according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son’’s head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) William Tell is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.