SCOPES TRIAL

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 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)

Sense 1

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

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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)