suffragist

[ suhf-ruh-jist ]
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noun
  1. an advocate of the grant or extension of political suffrage, especially to women.

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Origin of suffragist

1
First recorded in 1815–25; suffrage + -ist

Other words from suffragist

  • suf·fra·gism, noun
  • suf·fra·gis·ti·cal·ly, adverb
  • an·ti·suf·fra·gist, noun, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for suffragist

suffragist

/ (ˈsʌfrədʒɪst) /


noun
  1. an advocate of the extension of the franchise, esp to women

Derived forms of suffragist

  • suffragism, noun

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Cultural definitions for suffragist

suffragist

[ (suf-ruh-jist) ]


A participant in the women's movement to win voting rights in the United States. The fight for women's suffrage was organized in the middle of the nineteenth century. Wyoming, while not yet a state, granted women's suffrage in 1869, though the struggle for universal suffrage was to last another fifty years. In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing that no state could deny the right to vote on the basis of sex.

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