suffragist
suffragist
Definition
suf·fra·gist (suf′rə jist)
noun
a person who believes in extending political suffrage, esp. to women
suffragist
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- militant: She turned out to be one of the best known of the militant suffragists, Miss Emily Wilding Davison.
- British: All unwittingly the old pioneer handed back the flashlight to the British suffragists.
- other: Arrested several times, she spent more time prison than any other American suffragist.
- active: She was one of the first British female doctors ( 1892 ) and an active suffragist.
Modifies a noun
- movement: Did men in the House of Commons suddenly convert to the cause of the suffragist movement?
- leader: She was to be accompanied by another suffragist leader, Mrs. Mitchell of Ashton.
Noun used with modifier
- woman: These policies gained her the support of socialists, trade unionists and women suffragists.
Browse dictionary entries near suffragist
- suffragette
- suffrage
- suffragan
- Suffolk
- suffocate
- sufflate
- suffix
- sufficiently
- sufficient consideration
- sufficient condition
- suffruticose
- suffumigate
- suffuse
- Sufi
- sug-
- sugar
- sugar apple
- sugar beet
- sugar cane
- sugar-cured
