Meaning of Jacobin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
   dated
2. Alternative letter-case form of Jacobin.
   alt-of
3. A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
   historical
4. A domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) with reversed feathers on its neck.
5. A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
   broadly, historical
6. Any hummingbird of the genus Florisuga.
7. A leftist radical in other contexts.
   broadly
8. A kind of thick French soup with cheese.
   obsolete
9. Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
   archaic
10. Alternative letter-case form of jacobin, various birds.
    alt-of

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Examples

“The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.”

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