SUFFRAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does suffrage mean?
• SUFFRAGE (noun)
The noun SUFFRAGE has 1 sense:
1. a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
Familiarity information: SUFFRAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SUFFRAGE (noun)
Meaning:
A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
right to vote; suffrage; vote
Context example:
American women got the vote in 1920
Hypernyms ("suffrage" is a kind of...):
enfranchisement; franchise (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "suffrage"):
universal suffrage (suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country)
