'Suffrage' definitions:
Definition of 'suffrage'
From: WordNet
noun
A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to vote, vote, suffrage]
Definition of 'Suffrage'
From: GCIDE
- Suffrage \Suf"frage\, v. t. To vote for; to elect. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suffrage'
From: GCIDE
- Suffrage \Suf"frage\, n. [F., fr. L. suffragium; perhaps originally, a broken piece, a potsherd, used in voting, and fr. sub under + the root of frangere to break. See Break.]
- 1. A vote given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust; the formal expression of an opinion; assent; vote. [1913 Webster]
- I ask your voices and your suffrages. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Testimony; attestation; witness; approval. [1913 Webster]
- Lactantius and St. Austin confirm by their suffrage the observation made by heathen writers. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- Every miracle is the suffrage of Heaven to the truth of a doctrine. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eccl.) (a) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong. (b) A prayer in general, as one offered for the faithful departed. --Shipley. [1913 Webster]
- I firmly believe that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful. --Creed of Pope Pius IV. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Aid; assistance. [A Latinism] [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. The right to vote; franchise. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'suffrage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- association,
- Australian ballot,
- aye,
- ballot,
- canvass,
- canvassing,
- casting vote,
- choice,
- cochairmanship,
- complicity,
- condominium,
- contribution,
- copartnership,
- copartnery,
- cotenancy,
- counting heads,
- cumulative voting,
- deciding vote,
- division,
- enfranchisement,
- engagement,
- fagot vote,
- female suffrage,
- franchise,
- graveyard vote,
- hand vote,
- Hare system,
- having a part,
- household franchise,
- involvement,
- joint chairmanship,
- joint control,
- joint ownership,
- joint tenancy,
- list system,
- manhood suffrage,
- nay,
- no,
- nontransferable vote,
- option,
- partaking,
- participation,
- partnership,
- plebiscite,
- plebiscitum,
- plumper,
- plural vote,
- poll,
- polling,
- preferential voting,
- proportional representation,
- proxy,
- record vote,
- referendum,
- representation,
- right to vote,
- rising vote,
- say,
- secret ballot,
- sharing,
- show of hands,
- single vote,
- snap vote,
- straw vote,
- suffragette,
- suffragettism,
- suffragism,
- suffragist,
- the vote,
- transferable vote,
- universal suffrage,
- viva voce,
- voice,
- voice vote,
- vote,
- voting,
- voting right,
- woman-suffragist,
- write-in,
- write-in vote,
- yea,
- yeas and nays,
- yes