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RIGHT TO VOTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does right to vote mean?
• RIGHT TO VOTE (noun)
The noun RIGHT TO VOTE has 1 sense:
1. a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
Familiarity information: RIGHT TO VOTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
Context example:
American women got the vote in 1920
Hypernyms ("right to vote" is a kind of...):
enfranchisement; franchise (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "right to vote"):
universal suffrage (suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country)
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