MARIE STOPES

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• MARIE STOPES (noun)
  The noun MARIE STOPES has 1 sense:

1. birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)

  Familiarity information: MARIE STOPES used as a noun is very rare.

• MARIE STOPES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes; Marie Stopes; Stopes

Instance hypernyms:

birth-control campaigner; birth-control reformer (a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning)