HOW TO PRONOUNCE
Du Bois
American English · Video pronunciation
Press play to hear how to pronounce Du Bois.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does Du Bois mean?
proper noun
- Alternative form of Dubois.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
IPA is not available for this entry. Listen to the video for pronunciation.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
As professor W. E. B. Du Bois puts it, the idea should not be simply to make men carpenters, but to make carpenters men.
They listened with respect and enthusiasm to a scholarly address delivered by Professor Du Bois at Hull-House on a Lincoln's birthday, with apparently no consciousness of that race difference which color seems to accentuate so absurdly, and upon my return from various conferences held in the interest of "the advancement of colored people," I have had many illuminating conversations with my cosmopolitan neighbors.