Meaning of SUFFRAGIST
| Pronunciation: | | 'sufrujist
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | [n] an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women) |
| |
| | Websites: | | |
| |
| | See Also: | | advocate, advocator, Anna Howard Shaw, Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris, Esther Morris, exponent, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, Howe, Jeannette Rankin, Julia Evelina Smith, Julia Ward Howe, Livermore, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Lucy Stone, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Morris, Mott, proponent, Rankin, Shaw, Smith, Stanton, Stone, suffragette, Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Susan Brownell Anthony, Victoria Clafin Woodhull, Willard, Woodhull | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \Suf"fra*gist\, n.
1. One who possesses or exercises the political right of
suffrage; a voter.
2. One who has certain opinions or desires about the
political right of suffrage; as, a woman suffragist.
It is curious that . . . Louisa Castelefort should be
obliged after her marriage immediately to open her doors
and turn ultra liberal, or an universal suffragist. --Miss
Edgeworth.
|
| |
|
|