Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dorothea_lynde_dix

1 sense of dorothea lynde dix

Sense 1
Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix -- (United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887))
       INSTANCE OF=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist -- (a disputant who advocates reform)