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jacobin
/ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/
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What does jacobin mean?
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Jacobin.
- A domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) with reversed feathers on its neck.
- Any hummingbird of the genus Florisuga.
More meanings (11)
noun
- A leftist radical in other contexts.
- Alternative letter-case form of jacobin, various birds.
- (obsolete) A kind of thick French soup with cheese.
- (dated) Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
- (historical) A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
- (historical) A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
- (archaic) Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
adjective
- Of or related to the radical left in other contexts.
- (historical) Of or related to the Jacobin Club in France.
- (dated) Synonym of Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
- (archaic) Synonym of Jacobite, of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪn/
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At first, he hoped that this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would return.
The majority of young people, above all those who have their way to make, are more or less Jacobin on leaving college.
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The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested.
After a silence of a few moments, during which they all looked towards him without disturbing his outward attention from the Jacobin editor, they resumed their conversation.
The Jacobin has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they form a hood, and it has, proportionally to its size, elongated wing and tail feathers.