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POLITICAL DISSIDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dissenter from political orthodoxy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("political dissident" is a kind of...):
contestant; dissenter; dissident; objector; protester (a person who dissents from some established policy)
Instance hyponyms:
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn; Solzhenitsyn (Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918))