dissident
pronunciation
How to pronounce dissident in British English:
UK [ˈdɪsɪdənt]
How to pronounce dissident in American English:
US [ˈdɪsɪdənt]
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- Noun:
- a person who dissents from some established policy
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- Adjective:
- characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
- disagreeing, especially with a majority
Word Origin
- dissident (adj.)
- 1530s, from Latin dissidentem (nominative dissidens), present participle of dissidere "to be remote; disagree, be removed from," literally "to sit apart," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + sedere "to sit" (see sedentary).
- dissident (n.)
- 1766, in reference to Protestants, from dissident (adj.). In the political sense first used 1940, coinciding with the rise of 20c. totalitarian systems, especially with reference to the Soviet Union.
Example
- 1. Shots were fired ; a photographer was wounded , allegedly by dissident republicans .
- 2. After all , the flight of blind chinese dissident chen guangcheng to the us embassy last week had threatened a diplomatic storm .
- 3. Other dissident voices have been making plans to be heard .
- 4. That should help to limit criminality but it will also give those governments a clearer view of dissident activity .
- 5. Until his arrest in 2003 on tax fraud charges , mr khodorkovsky was a rich oligarch who built up a vast business empire in the 1990s , rather than a political dissident .