jean : Idioms & Phrases

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alexandre emile jean yersin

  • noun French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)
    Yersin; Alexandre Yersin.
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armand jean du plessis

  • noun French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)
    Richelieu; Cardinal Richelieu; Duc de Richelieu.
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augustin jean fresnel

  • noun French physicist who invented polarized light and invented the Fresnel lens (1788-1827)
    Fresnel.
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baron jean baptiste joseph fourier

  • noun French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
    Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier.
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billie jean king

  • noun United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
    Billie Jean King; King.
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billie jean moffitt king

  • noun United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
    Billie Jean King; King.
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blue jean

  • noun (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
    jean; denim.
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dame jean iris murdoch

  • noun British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999)
    Murdoch; Iris Murdoch.
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edward jean steichen

  • noun United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973)
    Steichen.
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hippolyte jean giraudoux

  • noun French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)
    Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux; Giraudoux.
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jean anouilh

  • noun French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987)
    Anouilh.
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jean antoine watteau

  • noun French painter (1684-1721)
    Watteau.
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jean arp

  • noun Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966)
    Arp; Hans Arp.
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jean auguste dominique ingres

  • noun French classical painter (1780-1867)
    Ingres.
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jean baptiste camille corot

  • noun French painter of Italian landscapes (1796-1875)
    Corot.
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jean baptiste de lamarck

  • noun French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
    Chevalier de Lamarck; Lamarck.
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jean baptiste donatien de vimeur

  • noun French general who commanded French troops in the American Revolution, notably at Yorktown (1725-1807)
    Comte de Rochambeau; Rochambeau.
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jean baptiste joseph fourier

  • noun French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
    Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier.
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jean baptiste lully

  • noun French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)
    Lulli; Giambattista Lulli; Lully.
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jean baptiste racine

  • noun French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
    Jean Baptiste Racine; Racine.
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jean bernard leon foucault

  • noun French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868)
    Foucault.
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jean bernoulli

  • noun Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
    John Bernoulli; Bernoulli; Johann Bernoulli.
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jean caulvin

  • noun Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
    Jean Caulvin; John Calvin; Calvin; Jean Cauvin.
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jean cauvin

  • noun Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
    Jean Caulvin; John Calvin; Calvin; Jean Cauvin.
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jean chauvin

  • noun Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
    Jean Caulvin; John Calvin; Calvin; Jean Cauvin.
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jean cocteau

  • noun French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)
    Cocteau.
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jean de la fontaine

  • noun French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695)
    La Fontaine.
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jean edouard vuillard

  • noun French painter (1868-1940)
    Edouard Vuillard; Vuillard.
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jean francois champollion

  • noun Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)
    Champollion.
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jean francois millet

  • noun French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875)
    Millet.
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jean genet

  • noun French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
    Genet.
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jean giraudoux

  • noun French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)
    Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux; Giraudoux.
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jean harlow

  • noun United States film actress who made several films with Clark Gable (1911-1937)
    Harlean Carpenter; Harlow.
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jean honore fragonard

  • noun French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806)
    Fragonard.
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jean laffite

  • noun French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
    Laffite; Jean Laffite; Lafitte.
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jean lafitte

  • noun French pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826)
    Laffite; Jean Laffite; Lafitte.
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jean louis charles garnier

  • noun French architect (1825-1898)
    Garnier.
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jean louis rodolphe agassiz

  • noun United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
    Agassiz; Louis Agassiz.
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jean luc godard

  • noun French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)
    Godard.
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jean martin charcot

  • noun French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893)
    Charcot.
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jean monnet

  • noun French economist who advocated a Common Market in Europe (1888-1979)
    Monnet.
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jean nicholas arthur rimbaud

  • noun French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (1854-1891)
    Rimbaud; Arthur Rimbaud.
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jean paul marat

  • noun French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793)
    Marat.
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jean piaget

  • noun Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980)
    Piaget.
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jean racine

  • noun French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
    Jean Baptiste Racine; Racine.
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jean sibelius

  • noun Finnish composer (1865-1957)
    Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; Sibelius.
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jean-baptiste poquelin

  • noun French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)
    Moliere.
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jean-claude duvalier

  • noun son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951)
    Baby Doc; Duvalier.
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jean-frederic joliot

  • noun French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)
    Joliot; Jean-Frederic Joliot; Joliot-Curie.
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jean-frederic joliot-curie

  • noun French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)
    Joliot; Jean-Frederic Joliot; Joliot-Curie.
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jean-jacques rousseau

  • noun French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)
    Rousseau.
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jean-louis lebris de kerouac

  • noun United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969)
    Kerouac; Jack Kerouac.
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jean-paul sartre

  • noun French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
    Sartre.
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jean-philippe rameau

  • noun French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764)
    Rameau.
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marie jean antoine nicolas caritat

  • noun French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
    Condorcet; Marquis de Condorcet.
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norma jean baker

  • noun United States film actress noted for sex appeal (1926-1962)
    Monroe; Marilyn Monroe.
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Satin jean

  • a kind of jean woven smooth and glossy, after the manner of satin.
Webster 1913