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US
/ˌsəfɹəˈdʒɛt/
]
[ UK /sˌʌfɹɐdʒˈɛt/ ]
[ UK /sˌʌfɹɐdʒˈɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
How To Use suffragette In A Sentence
- The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object. A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best
- The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes.
- She was a suffragette and a birth control pioneer.
- What would the suffragists and suffragettes of yesteryear think?
- The women in Bolton were suffragists, not suffragettes.
- Her subsequent position in the immigrant community as the proprietor of a cafe, however, is more closely aligned with middle-class social workers than with the labor activists and suffragettes of the working class.
- The women in Bolton were suffragists, not suffragettes.
- Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
- For the first time since the suffragettes, constitutional reform has become a popular issue. Times, Sunday Times
- When one considers the legitimacy of Parliament, it's ironic that it has largely come about through extra-parliamentary action: the Levellers, the Chartists, the suffragettes, etc.