dissident

[ dis-i-duh nt ]

/ ˈdɪs ɪ dənt /

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noun

a person who dissents.

adjective

disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude: a ban on dissident magazines.

Nearby words

dissertation, disserve, disservice, dissever, dissidence, dissident, dissidently, dissidents, dissilient, dissimilar, dissimilarity

Origin of dissident

1525–35; < Latin dissident- (stem of dissidēns, present participle of dissidēre to sit apart), equivalent to dis- dis-¹ + -sid- (combining form of sed- repair¹) + -ent- -ent

Related forms

dis·si·dent·ly, adverban·ti·dis·si·dent, noun, adjectivenon·dis·si·dent, adjective, noun

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Examples from the Web for dissident

But his account of a dissident plot involving Gambian expats using U.S. weapons is similar to what Faal told the FBI.
The Shadowy U.S. Veteran Who Tried to Overthrow a Country|Jacob Siegel|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Rights activists like Boledi, the Iranian Baluch dissident living in Sweden, harbor some of the same concerns.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email.
Remembering the Russian Priest Who Fought the Orthodox Church|Cathy Young|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Dissident filmmakers are routinely thrown in jail, forced to flee the country, or banned from work.
Jafar Panahi: Filmmaking Ban Is My Iranian Prison|Jamsheed Akrami|July 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Beijing's embassy in Washington could be in front of "Liu Xiaobo Plaza," an imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident.
Congress Trolls China With a Street Name|Tim Mak|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Moreover, these dissident patterns merge into a remarkably harmonious, almost normal, average curve.
A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds.|George H. Lowery.
Thy-doxy, if thou be Dissident, is that he cannot; but that he must become an accursed thing.
The French Revolution|Thomas Carlyle
And after tonight, I wasn't sure that I was in any better shape than a Chinese dissident.
Little Brother|Cory Doctorow
Hoxha silenced the dissident elements, however, and had most of them expelled from the Party or arrested.
Area Handbook for Albania|Eugene K. Keefe
The arguments employed had been considered and rejected a hundred times already by every member of the dissident group.
The Testing of Diana Mallory|Mrs. Humphry Ward

British Dictionary definitions for dissident

dissident

/ (ˈdɪsɪdənt) /

adjective

disagreeing; dissenting

noun

a person who disagrees, esp one who disagrees with the government

Derived Forms

dissidence, noundissidently, adverb

Word Origin for dissident

C16: from Latin dissidēre to be remote from, from dis- 1 + sedēre to sit

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