Dictionary Entry
jacobin
jacobin is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
- 2noun
One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.
- 3noun
A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.
- 4adjective
Same as Jacobinic.
- 5noun
a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
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