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Definition: Suffragette |
SuffragetteNoun1. A woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suffragette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | SUFFRAGETTE, T. H. E., a woman who lived years ago in Great Britain and the United States, who believed that noble man was incompetent, incomplete, incompatible, incongruent, inconsistent, and an incubus in his incurious incumbency. She was the daughter of Too Much Time and Too Much Money. Early days spent at home. She married and began her career. S.'s first weakness was a club. Then she fell to the level of a speech maker and a flag carrier. The fanatical desire to see her name in print led to the adoption of strenuous press-agent tactics. She died fighting. Ambition: To offset her husband's vote on election day. Recreation: Parading, windows, bombs, letter boxes, English ministries, and a string of etcs. Epitaph: Requiescat In Pace. (Also see Mrs. Pankhurst and Hope.) SUFFRAGETTE, T. H. E. Anti-, still lives, but is dying fast. Belongs to the moss-back half of femininity. Has serious objection to use of her head, except for decorative purposes. Was not averse to press notices and looked with envy on the achievements of the suffragettes in this direction. Being denied high office in their ranks because of lack of adequate cerebration, she set up a rival organization where brains were not requisite. Entertains the utterly absurd idea that all women, except herself, belong at home with their husbands and children. Where they belong in the absence of these, deponent sayeth not. Ambition: Continued parasitic existence. Recreation: Manufacturing evidence and tagging on behind. Address: Wherever there are suffrage meetings. Epitaph: Alas! The World Does Move And She Was "Agin It." Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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| Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 |
The term tends to connote acts of defiance, protest, self-sacrifice and sometimes violence. Suffragettes carried out such minor offences as chaining themselves to railings and setting fire to the contents of mailboxes. One suffragette, Emily Davison, died after she stepped out in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby of 1913. Many of her fellow suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes, during which they were restrained and forcibly fed. The so-called Cat and Mouse Act was passed by the government in an attempt to prevent suffragettes from obtaining public sympathy - it provided for releasing those whose condition got too serious, re-imprisoning them when they had recovered.
During World War I a serious shortage of men ("manpower") occurred, and women were required to take on many of the traditional male roles. This lead to a new view of what a woman was capable of doing. Political movement towards women's suffrage began during the war and in 1919 Parliament passed an act granting the vote to women over the age of 30 who were householders; the wives of householders; occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5; or graduates of British universities. United Kingdom women finally got the vote on the same terms as men in 1928.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Suffragette."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Woman | Bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist. |
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Crosswords: Suffragette |
| Specialty definitions using "suffragette": ARC ♦ BOOTH ♦ CURIE ♦ HOLMES, HOPE ♦ NATION ♦ SHOE ♦ VENUS. (references) |
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Screenplays | I can see why the suffragette movement are wanting the vote. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Suffragette (1913) Die Suffragette (1913) Suffragette Miss Pimple (1913) Billy the Suffragette (1913) The Suffragette Sheriff (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Forcible feeding of a suffragette. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Suffragette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "Suffragette" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.67% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "suffragette": anti-suffragette. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
suffragette | 34 |
lucretia suffragette | 13 |
the suffragette movement | 7 |
city suffragette | 6 |
city lyrics suffragette | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "suffragette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | militante e së drejtës së votimit për gra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | суфражетка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sufražetka, bojovnice za volební právo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stimmrechtlerin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σουφραζέτα, ζητούσα ψήφον για τισ γυναίκεσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szüfrazsett. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | suffragaid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uffragettesay sufragista (suffragist). (various references) sufragetã. (various references) суфражистка. (various references) pobornica ženskog prava. (various references) sufragista (suffragist). (various references) suffragett. (various references) ผู้หญิงที่ปลุกระ"มให้คนอื่นไปลงคะแนนเสียง. (various references) kadınların seçme hakkını savunan kadın. (various references) суфражистка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "suffragette": suffragettes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suffragette" (pronounced su'fruje"t) |
| 3 | -j e" t | georgette, jet. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-f-g-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: tartuffes. | |
-3 letters: features, gauffers, greatest, gruffest, suffrage, tartufes, tartuffe. | |
-4 letters: afreets, austere, ergates, estreat, feaster, featest, feature, fetters, gaffers, gauffer, gestate, gesture, getters, gutters, refuges, refutes, restaff, restage, restate, restuff, retaste, serfage, staffer, stature, stuffer, targets, tartufe, truffes, trustee, tuffets, tufters. | |
-5 letters: afreet, afters, agrees, aretes, argues, astute, augers, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, effuse. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-f-g-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: suffragettes. | |
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