Jacobs

/ˈʤeɪkəbz/
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Other forms: Jacobses

Definitions of Jacobs
  1. noun
    United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
    synonyms: Jane Jacobs
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    example of:
    author, writer
    a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  2. noun
    English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
    synonyms: W. W. Jacobs, William Wymark Jacobs
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    example of:
    author, writer
    a person who writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  3. noun
    Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)
    synonyms: Aletta Jacobs
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    example of:
    Dr., MD, doc, doctor, medico, physician
    a licensed medical practitioner
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