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

1 sense of john scopes

Sense 1
Scopes, John Scopes, John Thomas Scopes -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> schoolteacher, school teacher -- (a teacher in a school below the college level)