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WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does women's liberation movement mean? 

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the movement aimed at equal rights for womenplay

  Familiarity information: WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The movement aimed at equal rights for women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

feminism; feminist movement; women's lib; women's liberation movement

Hypernyms ("women's liberation movement" is a kind of...):

campaign; cause; crusade; drive; effort; movement (a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end)

Meronyms (members of "women's liberation movement"):

feminist; libber; women's liberationist; women's rightist (a supporter of feminism)

Derivation:

women's liberationist (a supporter of feminism)


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