Definition of John Scopes

1. Noun. Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970).

Exact synonyms: John Thomas Scopes, Scopes
Generic synonyms: School Teacher, Schoolteacher

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Scopes

John Philip Sousa
John Pierpont Morgan
John Q. Public
John Quincy Adams
John R. Major
John Reed
John Robinson Jeffers
John Rock
John Roebling
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ross
John Rowlands
John Roy Major
John Rupert Firth
John Ruskin
John Scopes (current term)
John Scott Haldane
John Simmons Barth
John Singer Sargent
John Singleton Copley
John Smith
John Speke
John Steinbeck
John Stuart Mill
John Thomas Scopes
John Tradescant
John Trumbull
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tyler

Literary usage of John Scopes

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

1. History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Suffolk, and the Towns Near Its Borders by William White (1844)
"Clark, corn miller ; Henry Moore, farmer ; George Mumford, Esq. ; Howard Procter, blacksmith ; John Reynolds, wheelwright ; John Scopes, shopkeeper ; and ..."

2. A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible by Una Stannard (2007)
"He was prosecuting John Scopes who'd broken a Tennessee law by teaching the evolutionary theory of creation. For Bryan and the jury that convicted Scopes, ..."

3. Neither Created Nor Evolved: Living Joyously Without a Creator by Walter Prytulak (2001)
"The debate over teaching of evolution was brought in a dramatic fashion into public arena in the 1925 "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee in which John Scopes was ..."

4. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by James Gairdner, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, Great Britain Public Record Office (1908)
"... and other lands (specified) in tenure of John Sture, John Clarke, Henry Blake- holer. John Scopes, John Clerke and Henry his son, ..."

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