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Definitions: Activist |
ActivistAdjective1. Advocating or engaged in activism. Noun1. A militant reformer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "activist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonyms: ActivistSynonyms: activistic (adj), militant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Politician, activist; candidate, aspirant, hopeful, office-seeker, front-runner, dark horse, long shot, shoo-in; supporter, backer, political worker, campaign worker; lobbyist, contributor; party hack, ward heeler; regional candidate, favorite son; running mate, stalking horse; perpetual candidate, political animal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Activist |
| English words defined with "activist": Black Muslim ♦ Du Bois ♦ W. E. B. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "activist": activist stratum ♦ CATS ♦ Econet ♦ Industrial Policy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Activist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (abetter, activist, agitator), Romanian (activist). |
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Screenplays | For Wendy I'll be an activist too, 'cause that's what Brian Boitano'd do! (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Activist (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Larry Kramer, writer and early AIDS activist, asserted his concerns in animated dialog between the AIDS community and people who guided government policy. |
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Business | Democracy activist Xu Shuiliang was also issued a passport in July. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | The matter was resolved when a former CPI(M) activist replaced the editor. (references) |
Kenya | Father Kaiser was a vocal human rights activist and a critic of key members of the Government. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Kozlova attended the demonstrations and filed stories on the confinement of human rights activist Elena Urlaeva in a psychiatric hospital. (references) | |
Discrimination | Hong Kong | Past criticism of the organization for passivity and for emphasizing conciliation instead of acting as a watchdog or pursuing court cases disappeared as the Commission has become increasingly activist in its approach. (references) |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | In general, labor unions are quite activist, and strikes are not uncommon. (references) |
Taiwan | In recent years, the Control Yuan has become more activist, and it has conducted several major investigations and impeachments. (references) | |
Human Rights | Yugoslavia | The incident led to a complaint by a local Helsinki Committee activist. (references) |
Philippines | Unknown assailants killed a human rights activist in December in Antipolo city. (references) | |
Liberia | The activist was released without charge after his lawyer filed a writ of habeas corpus. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Chile | On July 25, in Temuco between 500 and 1,000 persons protested the arraignment of indigenous people accused of illegal land seizures and the execution of a search warrant and confiscation of evidence in the offices of an indigenous activist organization. (references) |
Minorities | Burma | An activist group based in Thailand alleged that another 100 persons were killed in a riot in southern Burma, during which members of the USDA clashed with Muslims in Pha-auk village. (references) |
Argentina | In October political activist Hebe de Bonafini referred to prominent human rights activist and journalist Horacio Verbitsky as a Jew in a derogatory fashion in a news magazine interview. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | The PPP espouses a somewhat more activist view of government, especially in the social sector. (references) |
Malaysia | The trial of a prominent human rights activist on charges arising from her criticisms of such conditions continued. (references) | |
China | Others, such as CDP activist Zhou Yongjun, who was released in March, were released after completing their sentences. (references) | |
Political Rights | Uzbekistan | Ruzimuradov was a former member of Parliament and a human rights activist. (references) |
Bangladesh | In September an activist from the Awami League was killed as he was campaigning. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | One NGO run by a prominent human rights activist reported that 262 women were on trial for adultery in Lahore as of May. (references) |
Worker Rights | Kazakhstan | During the year, activist unions came under government pressure for holding unsanctioned demonstrations and marches. (references) |
Moldova | A prominent women's rights activist and Member of Parliament stated that more than 10,000 Moldovan women were working as prostitutes in other countries. (references) | |
Japan | Activist groups claim that employers exploited or discriminated against foreign workers, who often have little or no knowledge of the Japanese language or their legal rights. (references) | |
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Rush Limbaugh | But liberals know their agenda isn't popular enough to win at the ballot box, and the only way they can shape the nation is through activist judges. |
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| "Activist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Activist" is used about 329 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.7% | 328 | 15,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 329 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "activist": activist stratum ♦ civil rights activist. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "activist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aktivis (abetter, agitator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | aktivist. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | деец. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 活动家. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | aktivista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aktivt fagforeningsmedlem (trade union activist), menneskerettighedsforkæmper (human rights activist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onruststoker (abetter, agitator), agitator (abetter, agitator), activist (abetter, agitator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | agitanto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | طرفدارعمل . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | activiste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aktivist (militant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακτιβιστής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פעלתן (hustler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aktivista (militant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | aktifis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attivista (militant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 運動者 (crusader), 運動家 (crusader), 活動者 , 活動家 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | う"どうしゃ (crusader), う"どうか (crusader), かつどうしゃ, かつどうか. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 행동주의자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | activistay ativista. (various references) activist. (various references) активист. (various references) aktivista. (various references) activista (commoner, militant). (various references) aktivist. (various references) eylemci. (various references) енергійний діяч, активіст (militant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "activist": activistic, activists. (additional references) | |
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"Activist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: achivist, activest, activi, activies, activise, activus, aktivis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "activist" (pronounced a"ktivust) |
| 4 | -v u s t | archivist, bravest, canvassed, gravest, harvest, reservist, serviced. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-s-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: attics, static, viatic. | |
-3 letters: attic, scatt, tacit, tacts, titis, vatic, visit, vista, vitta. | |
-4 letters: acts, aits, asci, cast, cats, cist, sati, scat, stat, tact, tats, tavs, tics, titi, tits, vacs, vast, vats, visa, vita. | |
-5 letters: act, ais, ait, att, cat, cis, its, sac, sat, sic, sit, tas, tat, tav, tic, tis, tit, vac, vas, vat, via, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-s-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: activists, atavistic. | |
+2 letters: activistic, activities, nativistic, vitalistic. | |
+3 letters: activations, captivities, cavitations, distractive, inactivates, recitatives, recitativos, vacationist, vaticinates. | |
+4 letters: aviculturist, captivations, creativities, cultivations, inactivities, negativistic, reactivities, relativistic, vacationists, vasoactivity, vaticinators. | |
+5 letters: adventuristic, affectivities, associativity, atavistically, aviculturists, bioactivities, comparativist, deactivations, gesticulative, inactivations, justificative, reactivations, resuscitative, superactivity, vaticinations, verticalities, vocationalist, voluntaristic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 74 69 76 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. - .. ...- .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c t i v i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0074 0069 0076 0069 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3569867588758586 |
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