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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /pɹəˈtɛstəɹ/, /ˈpɹoʊtɛstəɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
protester (plural protesters)
- One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.
- The protesters thronged Trafalgar Square and sang anti-war songs.
- 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
- The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
- 2019 January 29, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Former Starbucks CEO heckled at book event for weighing independent run: ‘Don’t help elect Trump!’”, in CNN:
- “Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
- (law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
- 1997, Charles Evan Stewart, Transnational Contracts, volume 1, page 96:
- The protester must also draw up an affidavit containing the literal reproduction of the bill with its acceptance, endorsements, guarantee by endorsement ("aval"), and anything else contained in the note […]
Hyponyms
Translations
person who protests
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin prōtestārī.
Pronunciation
Verb
protester
Conjugation
Conjugation of protester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “protester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Latin
Verb
prōtester
Middle French
Verb
protester
- to claim
- 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:
- Lucillius, lequel protestoit n'escrire que a ses Tarentins & Consentinois
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of protester
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
protester m
Verb
protester
Swedish
Noun
protester
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