dissenter

See also: Dissenter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English dissent

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English dissenter

From dissent + -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

dissenter (plural dissenters)

1. Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.

   Synonym: dissident

   • 1988, Robert Jackall, “Author's Note”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 242:

     As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.

Derived terms

• dissenterism

Translations

someone who dissents

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反對者 / 反对者 (zh) (fǎnduìzhe), 異議分子 / 异议分子 (zh) (yìyì fēnzǐ)

• Dutch: dissident (nl)
• Finnish: toisinajattelija (fi)
• French: dissident (fr) m, dissidente (fr) f
• German: Dissident (de) m, Dissidentin (de) f, Dissenter m (Great Britain), Dissenterin f (Great Britain), Abweichler (de) m
• Greek: αμφισβητίας (el) m (amfisvitías)
• Japanese: 反体制 (ja) (はんたいせい, hantaisei), 反体制派 (はんたいせいは, hantaiseiha), 反対者 (はんたいしゃ, hantaisha)
• Korean: 반대자 (ko) (bandaeja)
• Māori: kaitāwari, kaiwhakahē
• Polish: dysydent (pl) m
• Portuguese: divergente (pt) m
• Russian: диссиде́нт (ru) m (dissidént), диссиде́нтка (ru) f (dissidéntka), инакомы́слящий (ru) m (inakomýsljaščij), инакомы́слящая (ru) f (inakomýsljaščaja), диссе́нтер (ru) m (dissɛ́ntɛr) (church dissenter)
• Spanish: disidente (es), disintiente

Further reading

• dissenter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• disenters, indeserts, residents, tiredness