SCOPES TRIAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does Scopes trial mean? • SCOPES TRIAL (noun)
The noun SCOPES TRIAL has 1 sense:
1. a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
Familiarity information: SCOPES TRIAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SCOPES TRIAL (noun)
Meaning:
A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Scopes trial" is a kind of...):
trial ((law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
evolution; organic evolution; phylogenesis; phylogeny ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms)
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