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LUDDITE

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Overview

LUDDITE (noun)
  The noun LUDDITE has 2 senses:

1. any opponent of technological progressplay

2. one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemploymentplay

  Familiarity information: LUDDITE used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


LUDDITE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any opponent of technological progress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Luddite" is a kind of...):

adversary; antagonist; opponent; opposer; resister (someone who offers opposition)


Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Luddite" is a kind of...):

working man; working person; workingman; workman (an employee who performs manual or industrial labor)


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