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dissident

[ dis-i-duhnt ]

noun

  1. a person who dissents.


adjective

  1. disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude:

    a ban on dissident magazines.

dissident

/ ˈɪɪəԳ /

adjective

  1. disagreeing; dissenting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person who disagrees, esp one who disagrees with the government
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ徱Գٱ, adverb
  • ˈ徱Գ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • 徱s·Գ· adverb
  • t·徱s·Գ noun adjective
  • ԴDz·徱s·Գ adjective noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dissident1

1525–35; < Latin dissident- (stem of 徱ŧԲ, present participle of 徱ŧ to sit apart), equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + -sid- (combining form of sed- repair 1 ) + -ent- -ent
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dissident1

C16: from Latin 徱ŧ to be remote from, from dis- 1+ ŧ to sit
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PC Lock was freed along with 24 other hostages after a six-day stand-off between members of a dissident Iranian group and the SAS.

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Our political dissidents imagine us to be too flamboyant, too outrageous, too inappropriate, too obscene, too freaky and altogether too much to bear.

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The senior police officer was seriously injured when he was shot in front of his son by dissident republicans at a sports complex in Omagh, County Tyrone.

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Signal has gone from a platform favoured by dissidents to the unofficial whisper network of Washington officialdom.

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Those documents revealed a systematic campaign to target and harass political dissidents, shocking a nation and prompting a congressional investigation.

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