FREEDOM RIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freedom rider mean? 

• FREEDOM RIDER (noun)
  The noun FREEDOM RIDER has 1 sense:

1. one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation

  Familiarity information: FREEDOM RIDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEDOM RIDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("freedom rider" is a kind of...):

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker (a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups)