Word.ws English Dictionary

universal suffrage

universal suffrage noun: the right to vote in a political election for all citizens who have attained the age of majority and are not disenfranchised under the laws of the country.

universal suffrage: the right to vote in a political election for all citizens who have attained the age of majority...
Image: jeffowenphotos, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

universal suffrage (uncountable)

  1. The right to vote in a political election for all citizens who have attained the age of majority and are not disenfranchised under the laws of the country.
    • On Dec. 5, 1934, women gained full universal suffrage in Turkey...CIHAN. (2014). KA-DER demands equity on 80th anniversary of universal suffrage

universal suffrage meaning in Hindi, Kannada and Indonesian

universal suffrage in Hindi

the right to vote in a political election for all citizens
सार्वजनिक मताधिकार sārvajanik matādhikār, सार्वजनीन मताधिकार sārvajanīn matādhikār, सार्वभौमिक मताधिकार sārvabhaumik matādhikār

universal suffrage in Kannada

ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಮತಾಧಿಕಾರ, ಸಾರ್ವತ್ರಿಕ ಮತಾಧಿಕಾರ

universal suffrage in Indonesian

the right to vote in a political election for all citizens
hak pilih universal

Questions about universal suffrage

What does universal suffrage mean?
Universal suffrage means the right to vote in a political election for all citizens who have attained the age of majority and are not disenfranchised under the laws of the country.
What is universal suffrage in Hindi?
Universal suffrage in Hindi is सार्वजनिक मताधिकार (sārvajanik matādhikār), सार्वजनीन मताधिकार (sārvajanīn matādhikār), सार्वभौमिक मताधिकार (sārvabhaumik matādhikār). See Universal suffrage meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is universal suffrage?
Universal suffrage is a noun.

Words near universal suffrage in the dictionary

  1. universal shunt
  2. universal shunts
  3. universal solvent
  4. universal solvents
  5. universal sorter
  6. universal suffrage
  7. Universal Time
  8. universal Turing machine
  9. universal Turing machines
  10. Universal Unitarian
  11. Universal Unitarians

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: universal suffrage (page history and authors); universal suffrage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “universal suffrage.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/universal_suffrage. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.