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BIRTH-CONTROL REFORMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does birth-control reformer mean? 

BIRTH-CONTROL REFORMER (noun)
  The noun BIRTH-CONTROL REFORMER has 1 sense:

1. a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planningplay

  Familiarity information: BIRTH-CONTROL REFORMER used as a noun is very rare.


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BIRTH-CONTROL REFORMER (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 reformer" 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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