animal rights

plural noun

: rights (as to fair and humane treatment) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all animals

animal rightist

-ˈrī-tist 

noun

Examples of animal rights in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But waning financial support, due in part to a animal rights group targeting national sponsors, has shrunk the purse while inflation is stifling young mushers trying to make a go of it. —ABC News, 10 Mar. 2026

Paul has also dedicated much of her life to animal rights and environmental activism. —Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Mar. 2026

The public meeting was packed with hunting advocates and animal rights groups. —Olivia Young, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026

Last year, the town of Fairfield piloted a rodent birth control program to manage the town’s rodent population in a more environmentally responsible way, and animal rights advocates hailed it as an innovative way to combat the use of the deadly rodenticide. —Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for animal rights

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