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say it: JAK-suhn
jackson is a noun meaning "English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)". It carries 11 recorded senses.
English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)
United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972)
United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885)
general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)
7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)
capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jackson come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.