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Definition: Jacobin |
JacobinNoun1. A member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Jacobin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opponent | Malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In this sense the word passed beyond the borders of France and long survived the Revolution. Canning's paper, The Anti-Jacobin, directed against the English Radicals, consecrated its use in England; and in the correspondence of Metternich and other leaders of the repressive policy which followed the second fall of Napoleon in 1815, Jacobin is the term commonly applied to anyone with Liberal tendencies, even to so august a personage as the emperor Alexander I of Russia.
The English who supported the French Revolution during its early stages (or even throughout), were early known as Jacobins. These included the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and others prior to their disillusionment at the outbreak of the Terror. Others, such as William Hazlitt and Tom Paine remained idealistic about the Revolution.
Do not confuse Jacobinism with Jacobitism (note the "t").
Some text here is taken from a 1911 encyclopedia. Please update as needed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jacobinism."
Crosswords: Jacobin |
| English words defined with "Jacobin": Jacobine ♦ Sans-culotte. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Jacobin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (jacobin). |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At first he hoped that this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would return. |
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| "Jacobin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jacobin" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "Jacobin": anti-jacobin. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
french jacobin | 28 |
jacobin | 13 |
jacobin pigeon | 11 |
club jacobin | 2 |
club jacobin pigeon | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Jacobin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jakobin, dominikan (dominican). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | راهب دومينيكي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | якобинец, революционер (redshirt, revolutionary), качулат гълъб, екстремист (extremist, out-and-outer, radical, ultra, wild man), доминиканец (dominican). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přívrženec stuartovcù (jacobite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عضوفرقه مذهبی مخالف دولت , راهب فرقه دومی نیکن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jacobin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | jakobiner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ριζοσπαστικόσ (radical), ιακωβίνοσ, αδιάλλακτοσ (hard core, inexpiable, intransigent, irreconcilable, unappeasable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jakobinus (carmagnole, jacobinic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | giacobino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acobinjay jacobino, pombo-gravatinha, frade dominicano. (various references) radical (entirely, left, radical, radically, root), iacobin (jacobinic), cãlugãr (conventual, friar, monk). (various references) хохлатый голубь, доминиканец (dominican). (various references) ćubast golub. (various references) jacobino. (various references) jakobinisk (jacobinic), jakobiner- (jacobinic), jakobin (jacobus). (various references) radikal (rad, radical, root and branch, sweeping), köktenci (radical), ihtilâlde şiddeti başlatan politikacı, dominikan papazı. (various references) якобінський, якобінець, домініканець (dominican). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Jacobin": jacobins. (additional references) | |
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"Jacobin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Giacobbi, Jacoba, Jacobina, jacobine, Jacobyini, Jacopino, Jakubac, Javorina, Macibini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Jacobin" (pronounced ja"kubun) |
| 3 | -b u n | bobbin, bourbon, cabin, carbon, corban, fluorocarbon, Gibbon, graben, hemoglobin, hydrocarbon, interurban, Leben, psilocybin, ribbon, Robin, suburban, turban, urban. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-j-n-o" | |
-1 letter: bonaci. | |
-2 letters: bacon, banco, banjo, cabin, cajon, cobia. | |
-3 letters: bani, cain, ciao, cion, coin, coni, icon, jiao, join, naoi, obia. | |
-4 letters: abo, ain, ani, ban, bin, bio, boa, cab, can, cob, con, ion, jab, jib, jin, job, nab, nib, nob, obi, oca. | |
-5 letters: ab, ai, an, ba, bi, bo, in, jo, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-j-n-o" | |
+1 letter: jacobins. | |
+2 letters: abjection. | |
+3 letters: abjections. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 63 6F 62 69 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100011 01101111 01100010 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a c o b i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0063 006F 0062 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44676981687580 |
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