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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1906 a woman who advocates suffrage for women

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. hist. a woman seeking the right to vote through organized protest. Etymology: SUFFRAGE + -ETTE

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(suffragettes) In the early twentieth century in Britain, a suffragette was a woman who was involved in the campaign for women to have the right to vote. She was a suffragette and a birth control pioneer. N-COUNT