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WOMEN'S RIGHTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A supporter of feminism
Synonyms:
feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("women's rightist" is a kind of...):
crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "women's rightist"):
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))
Instance hyponyms:
Beauvoir; Simone de Beauvoir (French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986))
Betty Friedan; Betty Naomi Friedan; Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan; Friedan (United States feminist who founded a national organization for women (born in 1921))
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman; Gilman (United States feminist (1860-1935))
Lucretia Coffin Mott; Mott (United States feminist and suffragist (1793-1880))
Alice Paul; Paul (United States feminist (1885-1977))
Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Stanton (United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902))
Gloria Steinem; Steinem (United States feminist (born in 1934))
Lucy Stone; Stone (United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893))
Sojourner Truth; Truth (United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883))
Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Wollstonecraft (English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797))
Fanny Wright; Frances Wright; Wright (United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852))
Holonyms ("women's rightist" is a member of...):
feminism; feminist movement; women's lib; women's liberation movement (the movement aimed at equal rights for women)
