/ English Dictionary

SUFFRAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment

Example:

American women got the vote in 1920

Synonyms:

right to vote; suffrage; vote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("suffrage" is a kind of...):

enfranchisement; franchise (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suffrage"):

universal suffrage (suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country)

Derivation:

suffragette (a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century))

suffragist (an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women))

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