dissident
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈdɪsɪdənt/
:
disidente
- The gentleman was interested in dissidents from the Soviet Union and wanted to get to know me.
- a political dissident
- treatment of dissidents
- a pro-democracy dissident
But we still have lots of things to learn from the dissidents.
- But we still have lots of things to learn from the dissidents.
- Would it be fair to let Hong Kongers and eventually Chinese dissidents jump the line in that sense?
- Genocide, concentration camps, thought reeducation camps, organ harvesting from live dissidents without anesthetic.
- They were able to plan marches, plan, you know, and Twitter became that platform for dissidents to basically assemble.
- It's also a case that is used by authoritarian governments to justify putting journalists and dissidents in prison.
- There's been murders and acts of violence against journalists and dissidents from the Philippines to Mexico to Pakistan.
- It is not uncommon to jail political dissidents or legislative opponents.
- But the the actual activists in dissidents in Vietnam are incredibly courageous.
- He was a butcher who shot people at the, you know, Cuban dissidents.
- If you follow enough of them for enough time, you can build the profile or that you can, you can pick up the dissidents when they are in kindergarten.
- In the end, the only antidote for the dictatorship of nostalgia might might be nostalgic dissidents.
- So this was the great Russian dissident who was died in a in a Russian prison some months ago.
- So it's possible for a few dissidents with expertise in biotech could create a global catastrophe of that kind.
- And during the meeting with his friends from the Politburo of Central Committee of Communist Party, Mr Biden betrayed Russian Soviet dissidents.
- You were contacted on Instagram by a group of people that claim to be part of the People's Liberation Army of China and dissidents.
Examples
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In the past, dissent against government policy was not tolerated, and dissidents were severely punished.
Academic text (1999) -
On May 15, 2006, state security arrested thirteen dissidents who signed the Damascus declaration calling for greater democratic reform.
Academic text (2008) -
Several human rights activists were then arrested, and one dissident claimed he had been beaten.
Academic text (1994) -
The Baptist became a socialist dissident.
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The most significant fact is that the dissidents live and work with Syrian protection.
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The territory has also been the most important channel for Chinese dissidents to flee China to the West.
Academic text (1992) -
How would a dissident in Iran actually speak out if they wanted to criticize the regime?
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Others, including some well-known dissidents, returned to campaign or send a political message.
Academic text (1992) -
The article contained the text of a tape said to have been circulated by dissidents critical of the government.
Academic text (1993) -
The dissident organized protests to challenge the government's strict censorship laws.
Synonyms
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3.6
A person who acts against the government or people in power
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7.2
A person who disagrees with common ideas or with those in charge
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5.1
A person who disagrees with a law or plan and says so
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6.2
A person who opposes authority or control
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7.4
A person who openly opposes their government or its policies
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4.5
A person who speaks out against a plan or idea
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6.5
A person or group that opposes the government
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7.4
A person who acts against a government or its rules, like a protester
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9.9
A person who disagrees with their political party's official views
Disagreeing with the majority or with official opinion
A person who openly refuses to obey rules or authority
A person who opposes people and groups in power
A person who objects publicly to something
Antonyms
Compounds
An armed group that split from the Provisional IRA in 1997 and uses violence against the Northern Ireland peace process
How Opposed
Surface Forms
Morphology
dissident = dis + sid + ent
The prefix 'dis-' signals opposition, making the general idea of 'someone who opposes' inferable, but the root 'sid' is not a standalone English word, so the exact morphological pieces are not fully accessible to learners.
Etymology
Dissident comes from Latin parts dis- 'apart' and sedere 'to sit', so it originally meant to 'sit apart'. Think of a person who 'sits apart' from the group; a dissident is someone who opposes official policy or the government.