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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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);
[syn: Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Dorothea Dix n 1: 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) [syn: Dix, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix]