protester

Noun

Meaning

One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.

One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

contestant dissident demonstrator dissenter objector protestantism marcher reb maverick challenger iconoclast resister radical opponent revolutionary
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Antonyms

exponent approver friend conservative associate champion
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Hypernyms

crusader individual person soul mortal somebody

Hyponyms

picket NIMBY nonconformist recusant co conscientious objector

Phrases with the word

certain protester

Examples

Zappa was not a protester or an activist. He was merely a man who used his brain. Piero Scaruffi

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester. Wesley Snipes

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side. Janine di Giovanni

The other thing that was fascinating to me, was there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there. Not one guy with a bad placard. Wilbur Ross

Those cameras are not going on the move unless we have a protester. If we had a protester that's the only time they move because they're showing something that in their mind is a bad thing, so then they move. Donald Trump

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean

Close letter words and terms

protestator protestatory protested against protesting protestingly protestive