SCOPES as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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)
   Synonym(s)
   • John Scopes (what does John Scopes mean?)
   • John Thomas Scopes (what does John Thomas Scopes mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Scopes is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • schoolteacher (what does schoolteacher mean?)
   • school teacher (what does school teacher mean?)