SYNDICALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syndicalist mean? 

• SYNDICALIST (noun)
  The noun SYNDICALIST has 1 sense:

1. an advocate of anarchism

  Familiarity information: SYNDICALIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNDICALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of anarchism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

anarchist; nihilist; syndicalist

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

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Instance hyponyms:

Bakunin; Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin; Mikhail Bakunin (Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876))

Emma Goldman; Goldman (United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 (1869-1940))

Kropotkin; Prince Peter Kropotkin; Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian anarchist (1842-1921))

Nicola Sacco; Sacco (United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927))

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker; Tucker (United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939))

Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Vanzetti (United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927))

Derivation:

syndicalism (a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions)