noun
- a woman who advocated for women’s right to vote, especially in the early 20th century
Usage: historical
Examples
- The suffragettes organized marches and protests to demand voting rights.
- Many suffragettes were arrested for their activism.
- Susan B. Anthony was a famous American suffragette.
- British suffragettes chained themselves to government buildings.
- The suffragette movement gained momentum in the early 1900s.
- Some suffragettes went on hunger strikes while imprisoned.
- The 19th Amendment was a victory for suffragettes in the United States.