"freedom rider" meaning in English

See freedom rider in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪdə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪdɚ/ [General-American] Forms: freedom riders [plural]
Etymology: From freedom ride + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|freedom ride|er|id2=agent noun}} freedom ride + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} freedom rider (plural freedom riders)
  1. (US, politics, historical) In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation. Tags: US, historical Categories (topical): Politics, People Categories (place): United States Hypernyms: desegregationist Related terms: desegregation, Jim Crow, racial integration
    Sense id: en-freedom_rider-en-noun-~Hj3-tRw Disambiguation of People: 74 26 Disambiguation of United States: 99 1 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 80 20 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 85 15 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 81 19 Topics: government, politics
  2. (Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians. Tags: Australia, broadly, historical Categories (topical): Politics Categories (place): Australia
    Sense id: en-freedom_rider-en-noun-bPEWhRx3 Disambiguation of Australia: 38 62 Categories (other): Australian English Topics: government, politics

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for freedom rider meaning in English (5.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "freedom ride",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "freedom ride + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From freedom ride + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "freedom riders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "freedom rider (plural freedom riders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "free‧dom"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "United States",
          "orig": "en:United States",
          "parents": [
            "North America",
            "America",
            "Earth",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 May 23, “‘Freedom ride’ must continue—Rev. King”, in Sarasota Journal, volume 10, number 27, Sarasota, Fla.: Lindsay Newspapers, →OCLC, page 2, column 7",
          "text": "A Negro leader said today the \"freedom riders\" whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. [...] [T]he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [...] told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that \"the freedom ride must continue, we will not specify the exact time, but it will continue.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "word": "desegregationist"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-freedom_rider-en-noun-~Hj3-tRw",
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ],
        [
          "civil rights",
          "civil rights"
        ],
        [
          "activist",
          "activist"
        ],
        [
          "participate",
          "participate"
        ],
        [
          "trips",
          "trip#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "bus",
          "bus#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "transport",
          "transport#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "freedom ride",
          "freedom ride"
        ],
        [
          "parts",
          "part#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "southern",
          "southern"
        ],
        [
          "demonstrate",
          "demonstrate"
        ],
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ],
        [
          "racial",
          "racial"
        ],
        [
          "prejudice",
          "prejudice"
        ],
        [
          "segregation",
          "segregation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, politics, historical) In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "word": "desegregation"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "word": "Jim Crow"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "85 15",
          "word": "racial integration"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Australia",
          "orig": "en:Australia",
          "parents": [
            "Earth",
            "Oceania",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians."
      ],
      "id": "en-freedom_rider-en-noun-bPEWhRx3",
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "excursion",
          "excursion"
        ],
        [
          "undertake",
          "undertake"
        ],
        [
          "protester",
          "protester"
        ],
        [
          "Australia",
          "Australia"
        ],
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ],
        [
          "unfair",
          "unfair"
        ],
        [
          "discrimination",
          "discrimination"
        ],
        [
          "Indigenous",
          "indigenous"
        ],
        [
          "Australians",
          "Australian#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "broadly",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪdə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪdɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "freedom rider"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "en:Australia",
    "en:People",
    "en:United States"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "freedom ride",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "freedom ride + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From freedom ride + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "freedom riders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "freedom rider (plural freedom riders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "desegregationist"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "free‧dom"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "desegregation"
    },
    {
      "word": "Jim Crow"
    },
    {
      "word": "racial integration"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 May 23, “‘Freedom ride’ must continue—Rev. King”, in Sarasota Journal, volume 10, number 27, Sarasota, Fla.: Lindsay Newspapers, →OCLC, page 2, column 7",
          "text": "A Negro leader said today the \"freedom riders\" whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. [...] [T]he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [...] told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that \"the freedom ride must continue, we will not specify the exact time, but it will continue.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ],
        [
          "civil rights",
          "civil rights"
        ],
        [
          "activist",
          "activist"
        ],
        [
          "participate",
          "participate"
        ],
        [
          "trips",
          "trip#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "bus",
          "bus#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "transport",
          "transport#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "freedom ride",
          "freedom ride"
        ],
        [
          "parts",
          "part#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "southern",
          "southern"
        ],
        [
          "demonstrate",
          "demonstrate"
        ],
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ],
        [
          "racial",
          "racial"
        ],
        [
          "prejudice",
          "prejudice"
        ],
        [
          "segregation",
          "segregation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, politics, historical) In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "excursion",
          "excursion"
        ],
        [
          "undertake",
          "undertake"
        ],
        [
          "protester",
          "protester"
        ],
        [
          "Australia",
          "Australia"
        ],
        [
          "opposition",
          "opposition"
        ],
        [
          "unfair",
          "unfair"
        ],
        [
          "discrimination",
          "discrimination"
        ],
        [
          "Indigenous",
          "indigenous"
        ],
        [
          "Australians",
          "Australian#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, politics, historical, by extension) A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "broadly",
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪdə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪdɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "freedom rider"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.