Suffragette

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
           [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suffragette
       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)