Meaning

2 senses
  1. (UK)A Protestant Christian who does not follow the established church, the Church of England.

    Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) Nonconformist, recusant, Free Churchman; autem cackler (archaic cant)

    a person who dissents from some established policy

  2. A person who took part in the Dissenters' March in Moscow.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Tom was the lone dissenter.

  2. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

    deFreiheit, das ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen · CC BY 2.0 FR

  3. Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter.

    deFreiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Tom is the lone dissenter.

  5. Dissenters were treated with whips.

    ruНесогласных угощали плетьми. — marafon

Forms

plural: Dissenters
SingularDissenter
PluralDissenters

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relateddissent

See also

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