demonstration
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3.2
- noun
- /ˌdɛmənˈstreɪʃən/
:
manifestación
- The peaceful demonstration in the city square drew attention to the importance of voting rights.
- organize a demonstration
- hold a demonstration
- a public demonstration
And I marched in the various demonstrations against it.
- And I marched in the various demonstrations against it.
- Eventually what happens is the demonstrations die out.
- But now you have multiple Gaza demonstrations in Manhattan.
- They come together loosely, that is, to hold a massive demonstration against the Third Republic.
- But you know, those that know me would tell you I joined rooftop demonstrations.
- So it's like having moments like that, mass demonstrations.
- I might, you know, campaign against it and join demonstrations or whatever, but if that's the law, that's the law.
- I got, I went to demonstrations, sold newspapers, went to meetings.
- Their first demonstration was on Wall Street and I I got handed a flyer on my way to work.
- You know, they on the one hand they're like, OK, we're pro, you know, George Floyd demonstrations and demonstrations for criminal justice reform, etcetera.
- And that's why we did the follow the Money exercise where we showed that these are not organic demonstrations.
- And then this, this demonstration got taken over by some real whack jobs who turned it into some really serious violence.
- There were there were very several demonstrations, violent demonstration.
- There were constant non violent, mostly non violent uprisings, demonstrations against Roman power.
- With the aid of these enormous girls, we started to organize the demonstrations.
- No, it's years and years and years of quite public in some respects, demonstrations, right?
Examples
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The Muslim Brotherhood initially avoided direct involvement in the demonstrations, which began on January 25.
Academic text (2011) -
Iraq experienced its first nationwide demonstrations on February 25, 2011, in part in Baghdad's Tahrir Square.
Academic text (2011) -
Then a huge public demonstration.
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This is an illegal demonstration.
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And now we go to our leader's house where earlier today a spontaneous demonstration took place.
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Then, after several marchers, a huge demonstration took place in Paris on December 4th.
Academic text (1990) -
So these have been the largest demonstrations that we've ever seen in our lifetime.
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In the late 1980s, public demonstrations became an important means of pressuring the executive.
Academic text (1999) -
Uncle Peretz would go to public meetings and demonstrations and come home exhausted and excited.
Fiction book (1998) -
Hey, you're gonna be at the demonstration on Friday, the buses leave promptly at 11:45.
Synonyms
578
2.5
A public gathering of people who show strong disagreement, like a march
384
3.8
A large public meeting to support an idea or group
161
2.6
A public walk for people to show support or protest for a cause
12
2.8
A public meeting where people gather to show support or opposition without violence
11
6.3
A public gathering where people show their views about a cause
5
3.4
A public walk by many people to show they disagree and ask for change
2
3.4
A large public gathering where people meet to support or protest a cause
Antonyms
Compounds
How Active
Surface Forms
Morphology
demonstration = demonstrate (transparent) = demonstrate + ation
The protest sense is a common sense extension: a public 'showing' of opinion, so learners can derive it from 'demonstrate'.
Etymology
Demonstration comes from Latin parts de- 'completely' and monstr- 'show', giving the sense 'to show clearly'. A public demonstration is people 'showing' their opinion in the street, so the origin explains why it is a visible protest.