NINETEENTH AMENDMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nineteenth Amendment mean? 

• NINETEENTH AMENDMENT (noun)
  The noun NINETEENTH AMENDMENT has 1 sense:

1. an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex

  Familiarity information: NINETEENTH AMENDMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINETEENTH AMENDMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

amendment (a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.))

Domain category:

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

Holonyms ("Nineteenth Amendment" is a part of...):

Constitution; Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; United States Constitution; US Constitution (the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states)