AGITATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agitator mean? 

• AGITATOR (noun)
  The noun AGITATOR has 1 sense:

1. one who agitates; a political troublemaker

  Familiarity information: AGITATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGITATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who agitates; a political troublemaker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

agitator; fomenter

Hypernyms ("agitator" is a kind of...):

bad hat; mischief-maker; trouble maker; troublemaker; troubler (someone who deliberately stirs up trouble)

Derivation:

agitate (try to stir up public opinion)

 Context examples 

One was a tramp, another was a labor agitator, a third was a law-school student, and the remainder was composed of wordy workingmen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He learned, also, that he spoke nightly to the workmen in the City Hall Park, and that among the anarchists and agitators that there inflamed the minds of the people he drew the largest audiences and made the most revolutionary speeches.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)