JACKSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jackson mean? 

• JACKSON (noun)
  The noun JACKSON has 11 senses:

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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)

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

8. a town in western Wyoming

9. a town in western Tennessee

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

11. a town in south central Michigan

  Familiarity information: JACKSON used as a noun is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JACKSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Glenda Jackson; Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jackson; Michael Jackson; Michael Joe Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jackson; Mahalia Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jackson; Jesse Jackson; Jesse Louis Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Helen Hunt Jackson; Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson; Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 6

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; Thomas J. Jackson; Thomas Jackson; Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Andrew Jackson; Jackson; Old Hickory

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Derivation:

Jacksonian (of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A town in western Wyoming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 9

Meaning:

A town in western Tennessee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):

Tenn.; Tennessee; TN; Volunteer State (a state in east central United States)

Sense 10

Meaning:

Capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Mississippi; Jackson

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)

Sense 11

Meaning:

A town in south central Michigan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Jackson" is a part of...):

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

 Context examples 

Well, Jackson, you are looking vastly better.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Identification number (stock number) of strain at the Jackson Laboratory.

(Jax Info, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from the C3H progenitor strain that was passed to Heston in 1941 and to Jackson Lab in 1947.

(C3H/HeJ Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

Developed by Strong (1920), the CBA/J mouse was disseminated to Andervont (1947) and then to Jackson Laboratory (1948).

(CBA/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

I have no doubt Jackson would take my practice.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Georgina Jackson, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology in the Institute of Mental Health, said, This research has shown that the 'urge' is increased by trying to stop yourself.

(Why Is Yawning so Contagious?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Toby Jackson, a plant scientist in the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, joined Gorgens on an expedition to visit the giants.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

"If you look at a painting by Jackson Pollock, you see a lot of different colors," Lambart says.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

It appears a neat job, however, as far as I could judge by candlelight, and does my friend Christopher Jackson credit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It would be much more easy to be born a Jackson, or something of that sort, one would think.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)