Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun suffrage

1 sense of suffrage

Sense 1
right to vote, vote, suffrage -- (a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920")
       => franchise, enfranchisement -- (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))