suffragette

noun

suf·​frag·​ette ˌsə-fri-ˈjet 

: a woman who advocates for women's voting rights

especially : a member of the suffrage movement in Great Britain in the 19th and early 20th century

Examples of suffragette in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To our good fortune, Guinness did play all eight, even the suffragette. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026

In such cards, suffragettes were usually depicted as ugly spinsters or abusive, lazy wives. —Melissa Chan, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026

Quarters honoring national heroes from the abolitionist, suffragette and civil rights eras have been scrapped and will be replaced by the nation's early White pioneers and revolutionaries. —Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026

But there are also suffragettes and railroad-builders and heroes like Park Hee Byung, whose early 20th-century efforts to organize Korean culture in Colorado unceremoniously netted him an unmarked grave, according to Fairmount. —John Wenzel, Denver Post, 31 Oct. 2025

Word History

Etymology

suffrage + -ette

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for suffragette

• alphabet
• arpanet
• bayonet
• biuret
• cigarette
• clarinet
• coronet
• coverlet
• dataset
• epithet
• ethernet
• heavyset

Kids Definition

suffragette

noun

suf·​frag·​ette ˌsəf-ri-ˈjet 

: a woman who supported voting rights for women when women were not allowed to vote