jackson Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
    Glenda Jackson.
  2. noun United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)
    Michael Joe Jackson; Michael Jackson.
  3. noun United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)
    Mahalia Jackson.
  4. noun United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
    Jesse Jackson; Jesse Louis Jackson.
  5. noun United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)
    Helen Hunt Jackson; Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson.
  6. noun 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)
    Thomas Jackson; Thomas J. Jackson; Stonewall Jackson; Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
  7. noun 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)
    Old Hickory; Andrew Jackson.
  8. noun a town in western Wyoming
  9. noun a town in western Tennessee
  10. noun capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River
    capital of Mississippi.
  11. noun a town in south central Michigan

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