Word.ws English Dictionary

Plural of dissident

regular plural

The plural of dissident is dissidents.

Forms of dissident

Singulardissident /ˈdɪsɪdənt/
Pluraldissidents
Countablecountable

Dissidents in a sentence

  • Other prominent Chinese dissidents and activists on the platform reported a plunge in follower counts, too.2024 March 18, Nectar Gan and Yong Xiong, “A dissident in Europe is enraging Beijing. Now Chinese police are coming for his social media...
  • The rest, about half a million Russian Orthodox and about the same number of Protestants, were known as ‘dissidents’; the huge Jewish community defied classification.2013, Brendan [Peter] Simms, Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN
  • Richard Feynman delighted in thumbing his nose at the dissidents and workers.From the entry thumb one's nose
  • The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.From the entry disappear
  • Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.From the entry persecution

Meaning of dissident

  1. adjective In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
  2. adjective Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).
  3. noun A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.

Full definition of dissident

Questions about the plural of dissident

What is the plural of dissident?
The plural of dissident is dissidents.
Is dissident countable?
Dissident is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dissident (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Plural of dissident.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plural/dissident. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.