Akademik

Jackson

noun

1. United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)

• Syn: ↑Michael Jackson, ↑Michael Joe Jackson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑singer, ↑vocalist, ↑vocalizer, ↑vocaliser

2. United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)

• Syn: ↑Mahalia Jackson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑singer, ↑vocalist, ↑vocalizer, ↑vocaliser

3. United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)

• Syn: ↑Jesse Jackson, ↑Jesse Louis Jackson

• Instance Hypernyms:

↑civil rights leader, ↑civil rights worker, ↑civil rights activist, ↑politician, ↑politico, ↑pol, ↑political leader

4. general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)

• Syn: ↑Thomas Jackson, ↑Thomas J. Jackson, ↑Thomas Jonathan Jackson, ↑Stonewall Jackson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑general, ↑full general

5. 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)

• Syn: ↑Andrew Jackson, ↑Old Hickory

• Derivationally related forms: ↑Jacksonian

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑general, ↑full general, ↑President of the United States, ↑United States President, ↑President, ↑Chief Executive

6. United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)

• Syn: ↑Helen Hunt Jackson, ↑Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author

7. English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)

• Syn: ↑Glenda Jackson

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑actress, ↑politician, ↑politico, ↑pol, ↑political leader

8. a town in western Wyoming

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑town

• Part Holonyms: ↑Wyoming, ↑Equality State, ↑WY

9. a town in western Tennessee

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑town

• Part Holonyms: ↑Tennessee, ↑Volunteer State, ↑TN

10. capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River

• Syn: ↑capital of Mississippi

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑state capital

• Part Holonyms: ↑Mississippi, ↑Magnolia State, ↑MS

11. a town in south central Michigan

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑town

• Part Holonyms: ↑Michigan, ↑Wolverine State, ↑Great Lakes State, ↑MI

* * *

Jackson [Jackson] [ˈdʒæksən] [ˈdʒæksən]

the capital of the US state of Mississippi

Useful english dictionary. 2012.