suffragette

noun

suf·​frag·​ette ˌsə-fri-ˈjet How to pronounce suffragette (audio)
: a woman who advocates suffrage for women

Examples of suffragette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Since it was slashed in 1914 by a suffragette, it’s been a target for whoever’s irked by whatever. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023 The same painting was slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914 in protest. Mallory Moench, TIME, 11 Nov. 2023 In 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson slashed the Rokeby Venus with a hatchet to protest the imprisonment of women’s rights activist Emmeline Pankhurst. Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023 Glynis Johns, the British actress who starred as suffragette Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins alongside Julie Andrews, died at 100 in an assisted living facility in Los Angeles on Thursday, her manager, Mitch Clem, confirmed to the New York Times. Vulture, 4 Jan. 2024 French revolutionaries pinned cockades to their clothes; suffragettes slung purple-​and-​green sashlike ribbons across their chests. Alice Robb, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2023 Such acts, if unpopular, fall in line with earlier, violent moral crusaders like British suffragettes. Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023 In the early twentieth century, the suffragette movement tied the politics of voting rights with other forms of mobility. Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023 For her part, Dr. DiCenzo thinks suffragettes did help bring about the granting of partial voting rights in 1918. Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2023

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Word History

Etymology

suffrage + -ette

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of suffragette was in 1906

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“Suffragette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffragette. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

suffragette

noun
suf·​frag·​ette ˌsəf-ri-ˈjet How to pronounce suffragette (audio)
: a woman who supported voting rights for women when women were not allowed to vote
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