social movement

1. 1.

   a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

   “he was a charter member of the movement”

   “politicians have to respect a mass movement”

   “he led the national liberation front”

   Synonymsmovementfront

   Broadersocial group

   NarrowerFree Frenchartistic movementBoy ScoutsCivil Rights movementcommon frontcultural movementecumenismfalun gongpolitical movementreform movement

Questions about social movement

What does social movement mean?

social movement means "a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals".

What is another word for social movement?

Close synonyms include movement, front. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social movement a common word?

social movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.