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say it: suh-fruh-JET
suffragette is a noun meaning "a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)". It is pronounced /ˌsʌfɹəˈdʒɛt/ — suh-fruh-JET. It carries one recorded sense.
a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)
United Kingdom
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suffragette come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.