Dubois

American  

[dy-bwah] / düˈbwɑ /

noun

1. (Marie) Eugène (François Thomas) 1858–1941, Dutch physical anthropologist and anatomist.

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Dubois British  

/ djuːˈbwɑː /

noun

1. W ( illiam ) E ( dward ) B ( urghardt ). 1868–1963, US Black sociologist, writer, and political activist; a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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Dubois Scientific  

/ do̅o̅-bwä′ /

1. Dutch paleontologist who in 1891 discovered in Java a fossil hominid which he believed to be the so-called missing link between the apes and humans on the evolutionary ladder. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus, but it is now known as Homo erectus.

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Example Sentences

Two-time undisputed heavyweight champion Usyk, who holds the WBA, WBC and IBF belts, has not fought since stopping Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium in July.

From BBC

As Ellen Carol DuBois relates in “Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” her subject was appalled to realize that, after the Civil War, men of unexalted background were destined to get the vote before educated women like her.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Her words are shocking to modern readers,” Ms. DuBois writes in this fine and necessary account of “a revolutionary life,” as the book’s subtitle has it.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. DuBois, a feminist scholar and professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles, pulls Stanton’s reputation out of the mud by putting her words and actions into historical context.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to Ms. DuBois it is difficult to pinpoint when and why the movement to which she had devoted most of her life began shrugging her off, but it did.

From The Wall Street Journal