Suffrage Synonyms

sŭfrĭj
A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. vote
  2. ballot
  3. voice
  4. assent
  5. attestation
  6. right-to-vote
  7. testimonial
  8. consensus
  9. franchise
  10. petition
  11. the right to vote
  12. prayer
  13. right
  14. testimony
The right or chance to express an opinion or participate in a decision
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. say
  2. voice
  3. vote
  4. say-so

Words Related to Suffrage

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. participate
  2. emancipation
  3. suffragist
  4. gay-liberation
  5. female-suffrage
  6. suffragettes

Suffrage Sentence Examples

  • The right of suffrage is confined by the constitution to adult male citizens who have resided in the state for one year.

  • Suffrage was by this constitution first extended to women tax-payers in questions " submitted to the tax-payers, as such."

  • A limited suffrage was conferred upon women in 1879.

  • A constitution of 1868 gave suffrage to the blacks, and disfranchised all whites made ineligible to office under the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the national Constitution, and also (practically) those who had by word, pen or vote defended secession.

  • The legislative power is vested in a national congress of two chambers, elected by direct suffrage, and convened on the 3rd of May each year.

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