• someone who often disagrees with you but who has your best interests at heart. Always rejects violence so cannot be called a terrorist or an anarchist. Generally dies young or never leaves the house (see [house arrest]).
    Syntactically - dissident (which is a noun) has no associated verb stem. You cannot dissid. You can do nothing dissidently - there is no associated adjective. In fact the word exists alone as an island in a sea of semantics. Perhaps this is why the meaning of the word has persisted unchanged for such a long time.


    Dissident meaning & definition 1 of Dissident.


  • [Dissident] republican (True Republican)
    One who is not going to [sell-out]
    to the pro British [GFA].

    Dissident meaning & definition 2 of Dissident.


  • A person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.

    Dissident meaning & definition 3 of Dissident.

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