protester

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English

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Etymology

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From protest +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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  • (US) IPA(key): /pɹəˈtɛstəɹ/, /ˈpɹoʊtɛstəɹ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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protester (plural protesters)

  1. One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.
    The protesters thronged Trafalgar Square and sang anti-war songs.
    • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
      The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
  2. (law) One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
    • 1997, Charles Evan Stewart, Transnational Contracts, volume 1, page 96:
      The protester must also draw up an affidavit containing the literal reproduction of the bill with its acceptance, endorsements, guarantee by endorsement ("aval"), and anything else contained in the note []

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin prōtestārī.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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protester

  1. to protest; to object

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Latin

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Verb

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prōtester

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of prōtestor

Middle French

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Verb

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protester

  1. to claim

Conjugation

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  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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protester m

  1. indefinite plural of protest

Verb

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protester

  1. imperative of protestere

Swedish

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Noun

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protester

  1. indefinite plural of protest