dissident
Americannoun
adjective
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- antidissident noun
- dissidence noun
- dissidently adverb
- nondissident adjective
Etymology
Origin of dissident
1525–35; < Latin dissident- (stem of dissidēns, present participle of dissidēre to sit apart), equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + -sid- (combining form of sed- repair 1 ) + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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She can’t afford to permit the freedoms of speech and assembly that an unconditional release of dissidents would unleash.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Khamenei allowed for reformist governments to run for elections, and win, but he dealt harshly with dissidents.
A family dispute has also caught attention: his sister Badri fell out with her family in the 1980s and fled to Iraq in the war to join her husband, a dissident cleric.
From Barron's
MIAMI—In recent weeks, family members of a group of Cuban dissidents who overheard their making plans to “liberate Cuba” dismissed the talk as the kind of bravado that is common among Cuban-American exiles.
The scene in which Katya discovers who informed on her dissident father, who subsequently was arrested and never seen again, is a moving moment in an evening largely given over to sillier ones.
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