dissident

[dis-i-duh nt]

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noun

a person who dissents.

adjective

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

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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 formsdis·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

adjective

disagreeing; dissenting

noun

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

Derived Formsdissidence, noundissidently, adverb

Word Origin for dissident

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

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Word Origin and History for dissident

dissident

adj.

1530s, from Latin dissidentem (nominative dissidens), present participle of dissidere "to be remote; disagree, be removed from," literally "to sit apart," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + sedere "to sit" (see sedentary).

dissident

1766, in reference to Protestants, from dissident (adj.). In the political sense first used 1940, coinciding with the rise of 20c. totalitarian systems, especially with reference to the Soviet Union.

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