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: a person who disagrees with an opinion or a group
How do you use it?
The refugee fled his country, noting that as a dissident of his country's government, he would have been jailed.
Are you a word wiz?
"Dissident" comes from two Latin words, the prefix "dis-," meaning "opposite" or "apart," and "sedere," meaning "sit." Which other words have "sedere" as a root?