dissident
noun/ˈdɪsɪdənt/
/ˈdɪsɪdənt/
- a person who strongly disagrees with and criticizes their government, especially in a country where this kind of action is dangerous
- political dissidents
- regimes that murder political opponents and imprison dissidents
- Dissidents were often imprisoned by the security police.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- leading
- prominent
- political
- …
- imprison
- jail
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘differing in opinion or character’): from Latin dissident- ‘sitting apart, disagreeing’, from dis- ‘apart’ + sedere ‘sit’.Definitions on the go
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