| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| dissident |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | dis·si·dent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d s -d nt |
| ADJECTIVE: | Disagreeing, as in opinion or belief. | | NOUN: | One who disagrees; a dissenter. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin dissid ns, dissident-, present participle of dissidre, to disagree : dis-, apart; see dis– + sedre, to sit; see sed- in Appendix I.
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
