Suffragette
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain. historical
"Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed."
- 2 a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century) wordnet
Example
More examples"Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed."
Etymology
From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.
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