Associations to the word «Dix»

Wiktionary

DIX, proper noun. A patronymic surname​.

Dictionary definition

DIX, noun. 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).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats