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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffragette \Suf`fra*gette"\ n. A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist.
Note: This term was applied mostly to women in the United States prior to the adoption of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920, giving women the right to vote. Modern use of this term usually refers to the women who advocated female suffrage[5] in the years prior to 1920.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"female supporter of the cause of women's voting rights," 1906, from suffrage, with French fem. ending -ette, but not in the sense in which it was in vogue at the time.\n\nsuffragette. A more regrettable formation than others such as leaderette & flannelette, in that it does not even mean a sort of suffrage as they mean a sort of leader & of flannel, & therefore tends to vitiate the popular conception of the termination's meaning. The word itself may now be expected to die, having lost its importance; may its influence on word-making die with it!
[Fowler, 1926]
\nCompare suffragist.Wiktionary
n. A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century
WordNet
n. a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
Wikipedia
Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries which advocated the extension of the " franchise", or the right to vote in public elections, to women. It particularly refers to militants in the United Kingdom such as members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Suffragist is a more general term for members of the suffrage movement.
The term "suffragette" might be particularly associated with activists in the British WSPU, led by Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, who were influenced by Russian methods of protest such as hunger strikes. Although the Isle of Man had enfranchised women who owned property to vote in parliamentary (Tynwald) elections in 1881, New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant all women the right to vote in 1893 when women over the age of 21 were permitted to vote in parliamentary elections. Women in South Australia achieved the same right and became the first to obtain the right to stand for parliament in 1895. In the United States, white women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote in the western territories of Wyoming from 1869 and in Utah from 1870, and in most states outside the South by 1919. With the ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment, suffrage was extended to white women across the United States in time for the 1920 presidential election. Women over 21 were allowed to vote in Canada (except Quebec) from 1919.
Women in Britain over the age of 30, meeting certain property qualifications, were given the right to vote in 1918, and in 1928 suffrage was extended to all women over the age of 21.
Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan. The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep.
Filming began on 24 February 2014. It is the first film in history to be shot in the Houses of Parliament, done with the permission of MPs. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2015 by Pathé and had a limited release in the United States on 23 October 2015 by Focus Features.
Usage examples of "suffragette".
As Bisbee left the room, Jonathan settled into a chair, gazed at the fire, and thought about the young suffragette who lived across the street.
She and Richard Ferguson enjoyed teasing him about the feisty suffragette whenever they had the chance.
In reply to this, Miss Annabelle Bloodthurst asserts that if we count the number of successful suffragette hits woman is never so true to her sex as when she is heaving bricks at a British prime minister.
It seems that the nurse, who was a suffragette in disguise, had removed the child, a girl, and substituted a mechanical doll, with a phonographic attachment.
When he visited the following day, mother and child were on very good terms with each other, and Lulu had decided to name the infant after one of her political idols, Sylvia Pankhurst, the fiery Communist daughter of Misses Pankhurst, the leader of the suffragette movement before the First World War.
Sylvia, a fiery suffragette with Communist leanings, and only secondly after her stepmother.
Another survival is the Suffragette, one of the big jokes of the pre-1914 period and too valuable to be relinquished.
Probably used to chain herself to railings and wave a suffragette flag in good old prewar days.
Victoria said, sounding more like a spoiled child than a suffragette, according to her sister.
Anyhow, when Lena gave a rather gloomy account of the existing state of things in the Suffragette World, Waldo was not merely sympathetic but ready with a practical suggestion.
Home Rule schism, the Tariff-Reform upheaval and the Suffragette crusade were thankfully seized on as furnishing occasion for further differences and sub-divisions.
Are the labor conditions better there than they are in England, where the suffragettes are making such a heroic struggle?
But after all, the suffragettes, too, are still lacking in appreciation of real equality.
Without that white sash branding them as suffragettes, men looked right past them as things of no threat, and hence, no importance.
Whoever was setting out to silence the suffragettes of Merriam Falls was doing a fine job of it.