Definitions for Dreyfus

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Dreyfus Drey·fus

Spelling: [drey-fuh s, drahy-; French d Dreyfus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in Dreyfus (defrsuy).

Definitions for Dreyfus

noun

1. Alfred [al-frid;; French al-fred] /ˈæl frɪd;; French alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1859–1935, French army officer of Jewish descent: convicted of treason 1894, 1899; acquitted 1906.

Examples for Dreyfus

I don't mean to say that he saw himself as a kind of Dreyfus.

Now Dreyfus went on like a man who knew he was a wronged man.

But that I told him would be an insult to Dreyfus, who was insulted enough.

Now dying of cancer, the Dreyfus Affair jolts him self-rediscovery.

In fact, Dreyfus mentions that at one point during their school days Halévy refused to speak to Proust for a month.

The Strauss-Kahn affair is obviously unrelated to the Dreyfus affair.

Without this precedent Dreyfus could not have been condemned.

My case is better than Dreyfus' and Sacco-Vanzetti's combined.

That was almost as bad as the Dreyfus case as far as it went.

It is a worldview that takes its name from the French nationalist writer, contemporary of the Dreyfus Affair, Maurice Barrès.