| has gloss | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform
reformer, reformist, crusader, meliorist, social reformer |
| lexicalization | eng: crusader |
| lexicalization | eng: meliorist |
| lexicalization | eng: reformer |
| lexicalization | eng: reformist |
| lexicalization | eng: social reformer |
| subclass of | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
disputant, controversialist, eristic |
| has subclass | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
protester, demonstrator |
| has subclass | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
prohibitionist, dry |
| has subclass | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution
conservationist, environmentalist |
| has subclass | (noun) a supporter of feminism
feminist, libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
| has subclass | (noun) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
hippy, hippie, hipster, flower child |
| has subclass | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
freedom fighter, insurrectionist, insurgent, rebel |
| has subclass | (noun) a militant reformer
militant, activist |
| has subclass | (noun) a reformer who believes in passive resistance
non-resistant, passive resister |
| has subclass | (noun) someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas
preservationist |
| has subclass | (noun) an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"
Utopian |
| has subclass | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
emancipationist, abolitionist |
| has subclass | (noun) a social reformer who advocates birth control and family planning
birth-control reformer, birth-control campaigner |
| has subclass | (noun) a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
Chartist |
| has subclass | (noun) a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker |
| has subclass | c/16th-century Protestant Reformers and ministers |
| has subclass | c/Civil rights activists from Northern Ireland |
| has subclass | c/Muslim reformers |
| has subclass | c/Sherwood Park Crusaders alumni |
| has subclass | e/Holy Cross Crusaders |
| has subclass | e/Protestant Reformers |
| has subclass | e/Valparaiso Crusaders |
| has instance | (noun) United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)
Anthony Comstock, Comstock |
| has instance | (noun) United States social reformer who pioneered in the reform of prisons and in the treatment of the mentally ill; superintended women army nurses during the American Civil War (1802-1887)
Dorothea Dix, Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix |
| has instance | (noun) Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)
Hus, John Huss, Jan Hus, Huss |
| has instance | (noun) Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
Robert Owen, Owen |
| has instance | (noun) Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498)
Girolamo Savonarola, Savonarola |
| has instance | (noun) United States social reformer who proposed an old-age pension sponsored by the federal government; his plan was a precursor to Social Security (1867-1960)
Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend |
| has instance | (noun) English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)
John Wilkes, Wilkes |
| has instance | e/Meredith Tax |
| has instance | e/nl/Krista van Velzen |