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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An advocate of women's suffrage, especially in the United Kingdom.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A woman who advocates female suffrage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

Etymologies

  1. suffrage +‎ -ette (“female agent”) (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Today, the term suffragette is often considered demeaning.”

    suffragette

  • “When the years brought those violent scenes and emotions of what has been called the suffragette campaign, Rosalie, who might have been expected to be a militant of the militants, took no part nor even interest in it whatever.”

    This Freedom

  • “This then is the end of the argument in favour of the suffragette, which is developed out of her own psychology.”

    The Psychology of the Suffragette

  • “Given that the speech focused on bringing all her supporters behind Obama, mainly women who see her candidacy as part of the 'suffragette' movement and last nigh being the anniversary of the women obtaining the right to vote and all I thought it was a very divisive subliminal message.”

    New York Times: Hillary Speech Partly Driven By Ambition

  • “There were enough men involved in the women's rights movement that the anti-vote males in the media used "suffragette" to humiliate men who were "suffragists," diminishing the term by putting an "ette" on the end.”

    Ellen Snortland: Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter

  • “By the way, the term "suffragette" is an example of turn-of-the-century media "spin.”

    Ellen Snortland: Women's Equality Day -- Thank you President Jimmy Carter

  • “The nitpicky twits who are looking to turn men into the enemy are not humanists, let alone feminists in the true "suffragette" sense of the word.”

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

  • “Her fellow 'suffragette', Maria Sharapova, recently sealed a £45million contract with a sports manufacturer, the most lucrative commercial deal ever for a female athlete.”

    Football.co.uk news feed

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. suffragist

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. women's rightist
  1. women's liberationist
  1. feminist
  1. suffragist
  1. libber

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. sacerdotalism
  2. barbeque
  3. colour-coded
  4. segregationists
  1. torchlight
  2. girls!
  3. libertini
  4. circumstantiality
  1. demagoguery
  2. secularists
  3. slig
  4. vulgar-minded
  1. theocracy
  2. proletariate
  3. suffragist
  4. way?
  1. propagandist
  2. nutcase
  3. quisling
  4. anti-chinese
  1. merrymaking
  2. emancipationist
  3. bagger
  4. duellist

rhymes (144)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Annette
  2. Antoinette
  3. Bernadette
  4. Bizet
  5. Bret
  6. Brett
  7. Burnett
  8. Calumet
  9. Chalmette
  10. Chet
  11. Colette
  12. Corvette
  13. Deseret
  14. Fayette
  15. Georgette
  16. Gillette
  17. Henriette
  18. Janette
  19. Jeanette
  20. Jeannette
  21. Lafayette
  22. Lett
  23. Linette
  24. Lisette
  25. Louisette
  26. Lynette
  27. Marquette
  28. Met
  1. Net
  2. Nicolet
  3. Nicolette
  4. Odette
  5. Olivette
  6. Paulette
  7. Piet
  8. Reset
  9. Set
  10. Tagamet
  11. Tet
  12. Tibet
  13. Willamette
  14. Wynette
  15. Yvette
  16. abet
  17. anisette
  18. baguette
  19. barbette
  20. baronet
  21. barrette
  22. beget
  23. beset
  24. bet
  25. bett
  26. boulet
  27. bret
  28. brett
  1. brunet
  2. brunette
  3. burnette
  4. cabriolet
  5. cadet
  6. calumet
  7. cassette
  8. charette
  9. charrette
  10. chevrette
  11. choquette
  12. cigarette
  13. clarinet
  14. cornet
  15. cornette
  16. coronet
  17. corvette
  18. cossette
  19. couchette
  20. debt
  21. diskette
  22. doucet
  23. duet
  24. et
  25. falconet
  26. fette
  27. flageolet
  28. forget
  1. forgette
  2. fret
  3. frett
  4. gazette
  5. georgette
  6. get
  7. intermet
  8. jet
  9. jette
  10. juliette
  11. kett
  12. kitchenette
  13. let
  14. lorette
  15. lorgnette
  16. luncheonette
  17. met
  18. mette
  19. minaret
  20. minette
  21. minuet
  22. net
  23. nett
  24. nyet
  25. octet
  26. offset
  27. pet
  28. piet
  1. pipette
  2. piquette
  3. preset
  4. pret
  5. quartet
  6. quintet
  7. regret
  8. reset
  9. ret
  10. rosette
  11. roulette
  12. set
  13. sette
  14. sextet
  15. silhouette
  16. sobriquet
  17. statuette
  18. stet
  19. surette
  20. sweat
  21. threat
  22. tourette
  23. unmet
  24. unset
  25. upset
  26. vedette
  27. vet
  28. vignette
  1. wet
  2. whet
  3. yet
  4. yett

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  1. woman
  1. female
  1. equal rights
  1. suffrage

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  • Prolagus You were chained to a girl that would kill you with a look
    (It’s a nice way to die, she’s so easy on the eye)
    She said let’s get away, but you played it by the book
    (You’re a warden’s pet, she’s a screaming suffragette).

    (White collar boy, by Belle and Sebastian) Apr 27, 2008

  • abraxaszugzwang Su su su suffragette city. Aaaaaaaaaw suffragette! Feb 7, 2007

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