DISSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissent mean? 

• DISSENT (noun)
  The noun DISSENT has 3 senses:

1. (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority

2. a difference of opinion

3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

  Familiarity information: DISSENT used as a noun is uncommon.

• DISSENT (verb)
  The verb DISSENT has 3 senses:

1. withhold assent

2. express opposition through action or words

3. be of different opinions

  Familiarity information: DISSENT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he expressed his dissent in a contrary opinion

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

objection (the speech act of objecting)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

dissent (be of different opinions)

dissentious (dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A difference of opinion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)

Derivation:

dissent (be of different opinions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dissent; objection; protest

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

resistance (group action in opposition to those in power)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissent"):

boycott (a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies)

direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)

demonstration; manifestation (a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature))

walkout (the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest)

Derivation:

dissent (express opposition through action or words)

• DISSENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dissent    ... he / she / it dissents   
Past simple: dissented   
Past participle: dissented   
-ing form: dissenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Withhold assent

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

Several Republicans dissented

Hypernyms (to "dissent" is one way to...):

differ; disagree; dissent; take issue (be of different opinions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

assent (to agree or express agreement)

Derivation:

dissentient (disagreeing, especially with a majority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Express opposition through action or words

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

dissent; protest; resist

Context example:

dissent to the laws of the country

Hypernyms (to "dissent" is one way to...):

contradict; controvert; oppose (be resistant to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dissent"):

strike; walk out (stop work in order to press demands)

demonstrate; march (march in protest; take part in a demonstration)

arise; rebel; rise; rise up (take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance)

rebel; renegade (break with established customs)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

dissent (the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent)

dissenter (a person who dissents from some established policy)

dissentient (disagreeing, especially with a majority)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be of different opinions

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

differ; disagree; dissent; take issue

Context example:

She disagrees with her husband on many questions

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dissent"):

dissent (withhold assent)

clash (disagree violently)

contradict; contravene; negate (deny the truth of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

dissension (disagreement among those expected to cooperate)

dissension (a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters)

dissent (a difference of opinion)

dissent ((law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority)

dissenter (a person who dissents from some established policy)

dissentient (disagreeing, especially with a majority)

 Context examples 

An acute observer might, however, have detected some signs of dissent amid the applause, and gathered that the proceedings were likely to become more lively than harmonious.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She made a movement of dissent.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mrs Musgrove had not a word to say in dissent; she could not accuse herself of having ever called them anything in the whole course of her life.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her daughter could not quite agree with her, but her dissent was not heard, and therefore gave no offence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was strictly enjoined, that the project of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books; none dissenting, except Bolgolam the admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne perpetual malice against you, on account of that infamous and illegal method you took to extinguish the fire in her apartment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This last argument, however, by no means commended itself to the pupil of Ockham, who plucked a great stick from the ground and signified his dissent by smiting the realist over the pate with it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Thomas could not dissent, as it had been his own arrangement, previously communicated to his wife and sister; but that seemed forgotten by Mrs. Norris, who must fancy that she settled it all herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And she would neither believe her own watch, nor her brother's, nor the servant's; she would believe no assurance of it founded on reason or reality, till Morland produced his watch, and ascertained the fact; to have doubted a moment longer then would have been equally inconceivable, incredible, and impossible; and she could only protest, over and over again, that no two hours and a half had ever gone off so swiftly before, as Catherine was called on to confirm; Catherine could not tell a falsehood even to please Isabella; but the latter was spared the misery of her friend's dissenting voice, by not waiting for her answer.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A large section of the audience expressed their indignation at such a slur upon the travelers by noisy shouts of dissent and cries of, 'Don't put it!' 'Withdraw!' 'Turn him out!'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)