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oppressors

oppressors is the plural of oppressor.

Meaning of oppressor

Noun

oppressor (plural oppressors)

  1. Someone who oppresses another or others.
    • And in respect of the great necessity there is, my darling, for more employments being within the reach of Woman than our civilisation has as yet assigned to her, don’t fly at the unfortunate men, even those men who are at first sight in your way, as if they were the natural oppressors of your sex...1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

Questions about oppressors

What is oppressors the plural of?
Oppressors is the plural of oppressor.

Words near oppressors in the dictionary

  1. oppressive
  2. oppressively
  3. oppressiveness
  4. oppressivenesses
  5. oppressor
  6. oppressors
  7. oppressour
  8. oppressours
  9. oppressure
  10. oppressures
  11. opprest

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