In the 21st century virtually every American considers themselves a dissident, even those who defend tradition and powerful institutions.
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Dissident
//ˈdɪsɪdənt//
Synonyms for "dissident" (132 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (66)
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3 entriesTranslations
85 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- disident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Arabic
1 entries- مُنْشَقّ noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Armenian
1 entries- այլախոհ noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- müxalif noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Belarusian
2 entries- дысыдэ́нт noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- дысыдэ́нтка noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Bulgarian
3 entries- дисиде́нт noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- дисиде́нтка noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- разко́лник noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
Catalan
2 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- dissident noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 持不同政見者 /持不同政见者 noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- 異見人士 /异见人士 noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- 異議分子 /异议分子 noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Czech
4 entries- disident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- odpadlík noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- odpůrce noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- odštěpenec noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Danish
2 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- systemkritiker noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Dutch
1 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Estonian
1 entries- dissidentlik noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Finnish
2 entries- dissidentti noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
- toisinajattelija noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
French
2 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- dissidente noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Galician
1 entries- disidente noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Georgian
1 entries- დისიდენტი noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
German
4 entries- Andersdenkende noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
- Andersdenkender noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
- Andersgläubige noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
- Andersgläubiger noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
Hebrew
1 entries- דִיסִידֶנְט noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Hungarian
4 entries- ellenzéki noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- másként gondolkodó noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- rendszerkritikus noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- szakadár noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Italian
1 entries- dissidente noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Japanese
2 entries- 反体制 noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- 反体制派 noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Kazakh
1 entries- диссидент noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Korean
1 entries- 반체제 인사 noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Latvian
1 entries- disidents noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Lithuanian
1 entries- disidentas noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Macedonian
3 entries- дисиде́нт noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- дисиде́нтка noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- ра́сколник noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Occitan
1 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Persian
1 entries- دگراندیش noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Polish
2 entries- dysydent noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- dysydentka noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Portuguese
2 entries- dissidente noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- dissidente noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
Romanian
2 entries- disident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- disidentă noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Russian
4 entries- диссиде́нт noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- диссиде́нтка noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- инакомы́слящая noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- инакомы́слящий noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- disìdent noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- disìdentica noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- ráskōlnīk noun (ecclesiastical: one who disagrees)
- дисѝдент noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Slovak
2 entries- disident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- disidentka noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Slovene
2 entries- disident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- disidentka noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Spanish
1 entries- disidente noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Swedish
1 entries- dissident noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Turkish
1 entries- muhalif noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Ukrainian
2 entries- дисиде́нт noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
- дисиде́нтка noun (person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
The political dissident has spent nearly a decade under house arrest.
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Will we support the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe?
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He said there are thousands of dissidents who are honorable, and only a few who turned out to be government agents. He said the use of such infiltrators is absurd, since dissident meetings are open to everyone and the participants have nothing to hide.
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