Standard Lemma guide

suffragette

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • UK, US: /ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛt
  • CMU ARPABET: S AH2 F R AH0 JH EH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: suffragist

2

noun

Meaning 2

a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber, suffragist

History

Etymology

From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: sufražetka — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Danish: suffragette — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Finnish: naisasianainen — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Finnish: suffragetti — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • French: suffragette — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Georgian: სუფრაჟისტი (supražisṭi) — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Georgian: სუფრაჟისტი ქალი (supražisṭi kali) — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • German: Suffragette — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Hungarian: szüfrazsett — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Italian: suffragetta — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Macedonian: суфраже́тка (sufražétka) — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Norwegian Bokmål: suffragette — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: suffragette — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Polish: sufrażystka — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Portuguese: sufragista — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Russian: суфражи́стка (sufražístka) — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Russian: суфраже́тка (sufražétka) — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Spanish: sufragista — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Swedish: rösträttskvinna — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Swedish: suffragett — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Turkish: süfrajet — female supporter of women's right to vote
  • Ukrainian: суфражи́стка (sufražýstka) — female supporter of women's right to vote