protest
To make a strong objection.
Example
“How dare you, I protest!”
Other meanings
To affirm (something).
“I protest my innocence.”
To publicly demonstrate against.
“They protested the demolition of the school.”
Related words
- antiprotest
- counterprotest
- cyberprotest
- ecoprotest
- nonprotest
- protestable
- protestive
- protestware
- supraprotest
- Protestant
- protestation
- protester
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "prōtestor".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “protest” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.