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political dissident
DEFINITIONS OF:
political dissident
1
n
a dissenter from political orthodoxy
Examples:
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918)
Type of:
contestant
,
dissenter
,
dissident
,
objector
,
protester
a person who dissents from some established policy
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