POLITICAL DISSIDENT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A dissenter from political orthodoxy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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))

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