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SUFFRAGE
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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))
