Suffragette (Noun)
Meaning
A woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The suffragette movement in the UK played a crucial role in securing women's right to vote in 1918.
- Emmeline Pankhurst was a prominent British suffragette who led the fight for women's suffrage.
- The suffragette protests were often met with violence and arrests by the authorities.
- A group of suffragettes chained themselves to the railings outside the Houses of Parliament in a bold act of defiance.
- The suffragette movement's use of civil disobedience and non-violent resistance inspired other social movements around the world.