SUFFRAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suffrage mean? 

• SUFFRAGE (noun)
  The noun SUFFRAGE has 1 sense:

1. a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment

  Familiarity information: SUFFRAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUFFRAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

right to vote; suffrage; vote

Context example:

American women got the vote in 1920

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))

 Context examples 

To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What did love have to do with Ruth's divergent views on art, right conduct, the French Revolution, or equal suffrage?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)