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BIRTH-CONTROL CAMPAIGNER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does birth-control campaigner mean?
• BIRTH-CONTROL CAMPAIGNER (noun)
The noun BIRTH-CONTROL CAMPAIGNER has 1 sense:
1. a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
Familiarity information: BIRTH-CONTROL CAMPAIGNER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BIRTH-CONTROL CAMPAIGNER (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
birth-control campaigner; birth-control reformer
Hypernyms ("birth-control campaigner" is a kind of...):
crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)
Instance hyponyms:
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes; Marie Stopes; Stopes (birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958))
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