Addams

American

[ad-uhmz] / ˈæd əmz /

noun

Charles (Samuel), 1912–88, U.S. cartoonist.
Jane, 1860–1935, U.S. social worker and writer: Nobel Peace Prize 1931.

Addams British

/ ˈædəmz /

noun

Jane. 1860–1935, US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist, who founded Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago: Nobel peace prize 1931

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He is bearded and buff; she is a porcelain doll with Wednesday Addams hair and skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Frankie Addams “belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

In the video, which was also posted on Facebook and had more than 2.5m views, Zeta-Jones, who is from Mumbles, Swansea, talked about how much she enjoyed exploring her character, Morticia Addams, in season two.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

“The answer,” Mr. Cooper and Ms. Johnson promise, “is in here somewhere”—hidden among piles of arch testimony and macabre illustrations in the style of Charles Addams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

In the next instant Jane Addams realized her purse was gone.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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