Definition of Du bois

1. Noun. United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Du Bois

Dryopteris goldiana
Dryopteris hexagonoptera
Dryopteris marginalis
Dryopteris noveboracensis
Dryopteris oreades
Dryopteris oreopteris
Dryopteris phegopteris
Dryopteris thelypteris
Dryopteris thelypteris pubescens
Drôme
Dschubba
Du.
DuBois' formula
DuBois Heyward
Du Barry
Du Bois
Du Bois-Reymond's law
Duane
Dubai
Dubhe
Dubin
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Dublin
Dubliner
Dubliners
Dublinese
Dubonnet
Duboscq's colourimeter

Literary usage of Du bois

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"EMIL du bois-REYMOND. 1818—1896. " With intellectual leanings impelling me in almost equal degree in various directions of natural knowledge, it has been my ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"In combating the paralyzing idea of a ' vital force,' none was as energetic, none as persévérant as du Bois-Reymond. Only recently the old warrior in ..."

3. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"du bois.—Campbell. — Theodore Hook. — Mat hews. — James and Horace Smith.—Fuseli. ... du bois was one of those wits, who, like the VOL. II. ..."

4. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1889)
"It has assumed great importance in the Theory of Functions developed by Weierstrass and his followers. t Both due to du bois-Reymond. See Math. Ann., iv. ..."

5. Lectures on the Calculus of Variations by Oskar Bolza (1904)
"In order to answer this question, we return to the equation oJ-0 in the original form (7) and, with Du BOIS-REYMOND and ..."

6. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1917)
"4 Coleman and du bois: Arch. Int. Med., 1914, xiv, 168. ... "du bois: Archiv. Inter. Med., 1916, xvi, 887. 18 Coleman and du bois: Arch. Int. Med., 1915, ..."

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