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BILL GATES
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• BILL GATES (noun)
The noun BILL GATES has 1 sense:
1. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
Familiarity information: BILL GATES used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Bill Gates; Gates; William Henry Gates
Instance hypernyms:
computer scientist (a scientist who specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computers)
enterpriser; entrepreneur (someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it)
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