English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī English dissenter
From dissent + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
dissenter (plural dissenters)
- 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.
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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
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