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jacobin

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
Jac=o=bin

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun jacobin has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

jacobinn. [F. See 2d Jack, Jacobite.].
  •  A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
jacobina. 

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jacobin, n.
1 a hist. a member of a radical democratic club established in Paris in 1789 in the old convent of the Jacobins (see sense 2). b any extreme radical.
2 archaic a Dominican friar.
3 (jacobin) a pigeon with reversed feathers on the back of its neck like a cowl.

Derivative
Jacobinic adj. Jacobinical adj. Jacobinism n.
Etymology
orig. in sense 2 by assoc. with the Rue St Jacques in Paris: ME f. F f. med.L Jacobinus f. eccl.L Jacobus

THESAURUS

jacobin

Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, bonnet rouge, criminal syndicalist, extreme left-winger, extremist, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mild radical, nihilist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, rebel, red, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, ultra, ultraist, yippie

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jacobin

Opponent

N opponent, antagonist, adversary, adverse party, opposition, enemy, the other side, assailant, oppositionist, obstructive, brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant, filibuster, obstructionist, malcontent, Jacobin, Fenian, demagogue, reactionist, rival, competitor, bete noir.

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