Bebel

[ bey-buh l ]

/ ˈbeɪ bəl /

noun

Fer·di·nand Au·gust

[fur-dn-and aw-guh st; German fer-di-nahnt ou-goo st] /ˈfɜr dnˌænd ˈɔ gəst; German ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt ˈaʊ gʊst/, 1840–1913, German socialist and writer.

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Examples from the Web for bebel

As August Bebel might have said if he were watching all this, bipartisanship is the optimism of fools.
That Boehner Speech: Dragons Last Forever, But No So Little Speakers|Michael Tomasky|November 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Bebel's exhaustive work, here put in English garb, does this double work unerringly.
Woman under socialism|August Bebel
In fact, only a short time ago Bebel publicly professed himself a convert to Haeckel's wisdom.
At the Deathbed of Darwinism|Eberhard Dennert
However, various representatives of the working class already sat in Parliament, and among them were Bebel and Liebknecht.
Violence and the Labor Movement|Robert Hunter

Bebel's book, speedily translated into English, furnished the plebeian complement to Mill's.
The Task of Social Hygiene|Havelock Ellis
Bebel and Liebknecht appeared in the German movement as influential figures only after the disappearance of Lassalle.
Violence and the Labor Movement|Robert Hunter

British Dictionary definitions for bebel

Bebel

/ (German ˈbeːbəl) /

noun

August (ˈauɡʊst). 1840–1913, German socialist leader: one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party (1869)

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