Usually means: Opposes official policy or government.
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  1. dissident: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dissident: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dissident: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dissident: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dissident: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dissident, dissident: Wordnik
  7. dissident: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dissident: Wiktionary
  9. dissident: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dissident: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dissident: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dissident, dissident: Dictionary.com
  13. dissident (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dissident: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dissident (album), Dissident (song), Dissident, The Dissident: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dissident: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dissident: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dissident: Rhymezone
  19. Dissident (m), dissident, dissident(e) (m/f), dissident (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dissident: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dissident: Free Dictionary
  22. dissident: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dissident: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dissident: Legal dictionary

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  1. dissident: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
adjective:  (Northern Ireland) Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).
noun:  A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
noun:  (Christianity) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
noun:  (Christianity, specifically, historical) Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.

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