VOTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voter mean? 

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

1. a citizen who has a legal right to vote

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A citizen who has a legal right to vote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

elector; voter

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

citizen (a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community)

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

constituent (a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes)

crossover; crossover voter (a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party)

floater (a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election)

floating voter; swing voter (a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other)

Holonyms ("voter" is a member of...):

electorate (the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote)

Derivation:

vote (express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote)

vote (bring into existence or make available by vote)

vote (express one's choice or preference by vote)

 Context examples 

Its power was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country of those who were opposed to its views.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then desired to know, What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most considerable gentleman in the neighbourhood?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was so cleverly stupid and unoriginal, and also so convincing, that the leaders cannot help but regard him as safe and sure, while his platitudes are so much like the platitudes of the average voter that—oh, well, you know you flatter any man by dressing up his own thoughts for him and presenting them to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)