woman suffrage

American  

[woom-uhn suhf-rij] / ˈwʊm ən ˈsʌf rɪdʒ /

Also women's suffrage

noun

1. the right of women to vote; female suffrage.

2. a movement to gain this right for women.

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Other Word Forms

• woman-suffrage
  adjective
• woman-suffragist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of woman suffrage

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Bowdle said he would be voting against woman suffrage.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2022

Everett Wheeler, the president of East Side House, felt that another hazard lay with the woman suffrage movement.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2012

Its goal was to draw attention to the cause of woman suffrage.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Many people, both men and women, thought that woman suffrage was too radical a break with tradition.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

On the platform were gathered the woman suffrage leaders, some of whom she already knew: William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Freeman Clarke; veteran captains of Reform, her husband's old companions-in-arms.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe