freedom rider
/ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪdɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In the United States during 1961, a civil rights activist who participated in one or more trips by bus or other forms of transport, known as freedom rides, through parts of the southern U.S. to demonstrate opposition to racial prejudice and segregation.
American usage
noun
A participant in a similar excursion undertaken by protesters in Australia in 1965 in opposition to unfair discrimination against Indigenous Australians.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "A Negro leader said today the "freedom riders" whose arrival here touched off race riots last Saturday will continue their test of Southern bus station segregation barriers. [...] [T]he Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [...] told a news conference the group met for four hours last night and decided that "the freedom ride must continue, we will not specify the exact time, but it will continue.""
Etymology
From freedom ride + -er.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹidəm ˌɹaɪdɚ/
- British English: /ˈfɹiːdəm ˌɹaɪdə/
Usage
- American usage
- Australian usage