Meanings
plural suffragettes
- historicalA female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.
2018 February 2, “Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London”, in The Guardian, retrieved 11 Jul 2021
Origin
From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech sufražetka
- sufražetkafemale supporter of women's right to vote
Danish suffragette
- suffragettefemale supporter of women's right to vote
Finnish naisasianainen, suffragetti
- naisasianainenfemale supporter of women's right to vote
- suffragettifemale supporter of women's right to vote
French suffragette
- suffragettefemale supporter of women's right to vote
German Suffragette
- Suffragettefemale supporter of women's right to vote
Hungarian szüfrazsett
- szüfrazsettfemale supporter of women's right to vote
Italian suffragetta
- suffragettafemale supporter of women's right to vote
Norwegian Bokmål suffragette
- suffragettefemale supporter of women's right to vote
Polish sufrażystka
- sufrażystkafemale supporter of women's right to vote
Portuguese sufragista
- sufragistafemale supporter of women's right to vote
Russian суфражи́стка, суфраже́тка
- суфражи́стка (sufražístka)female supporter of women's right to vote
- суфраже́тка (sufražétka)female supporter of women's right to vote
Spanish sufragista
- sufragistafemale supporter of women's right to vote
Swedish rösträttskvinna, suffragett
- rösträttskvinnafemale supporter of women's right to vote
- suffragettfemale supporter of women's right to vote
Turkish süfrajet
- süfrajetfemale supporter of women's right to vote
Ukrainian суфражи́стка
- суфражи́стка (sufražýstka)female supporter of women's right to vote
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with suffragette
Cite this entry
suffragette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suffragette
“suffragette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suffragette. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suffragette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suffragette.
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