protester
noun (a protester, protesters; also protestor)
Everyday
A protester is a person who shows in public that they strongly disagree with something, for example by marching, holding signs or shouting. tree →
In the lessons
In citizenship and history lessons, protesters have changed laws, for example suffragettes for women's votes and civil rights marchers in the USA. In news, protesters march about climate, wars, jobs or prices; in many countries peaceful protest is a right. Some protests turn violent, and police manage crowds.
Examples
- Protesters marched through the city with banners. tree →
- The protesters wanted cleaner air. tree →
- Suffragettes were protesters for women's right to vote. tree →
- Police kept the protesters away from the road. tree →
- Some protesters chained themselves to trees. tree →
- Thousands of protesters gathered peacefully. tree →
Note
Countable. Both spellings are used: protester and protestor. Related: protest (noun and verb). Stress: a PRO-test (noun), to pro-TEST (verb).
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «protester» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «protester» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/protester/