SOCIAL MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social movement mean? 

• SOCIAL MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL MOVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

front; movement; social movement

Context example:

he led the national liberation front

Hypernyms ("social movement" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

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

Fighting French; Free French (a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic)

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)

Boy Scouts (an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys)

Civil Rights movement (movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens)

common front (a movement in which several individuals or groups with different interests join together)

cultural movement (a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals)

ecumenism; oecumenism (a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches))

falun gong (a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices)

political movement (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)

reform movement (a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms)

religious movement (a movement intended to bring about religious reforms)

Zionism; Zionist movement (a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine)