Meaning of "protest" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROTEST

From Latin prōtestārī to make a formal declaration, from prō- before + testārī to assert.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PROTEST

protest  [ˈprəʊtɛst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTEST

Protest is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb protest in English.

WHAT DOES PROTEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Protest

A protest is an expression of objection by words or by actions to particular events, policies, or situations. Protests can take many different forms; from individual statements to mass demonstrations. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence public opinion or government policy, or they may undertake direct action in an attempt to directly enact desired changes themselves. Where protests are part of a systematic and peaceful campaign to achieve a particular objective, and involve the use of pressure as well as persuasion, they go beyond mere protest and may be better described as cases of civil resistance or nonviolent resistance. Various forms of self-expression and protest are sometimes restricted by governmental policy, economic circumstances, religious orthodoxy, social structures, or media monopoly. When such restrictions occur, protests may assume the form of open civil disobedience, more subtle forms of resistance against the restrictions, or may spill over into other areas such as culture and emigration. A protest can itself sometimes be the subject of a counter-protest.

Definition of protest in the English dictionary

The first definition of protest in the dictionary is public, often organized, dissent or manifestation of such dissent. Other definition of protest is a declaration or objection that is formal or solemn. Protest is also an expression of disagreement or complaint.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PROTEST

PRESENT

Present

I protest

you protest

he/she/it protests

we protest

you protest

they protest

Present continuous

I am protesting

you are protesting

he/she/it is protesting

we are protesting

you are protesting

they are protesting

Present perfect

I have protested

you have protested

he/she/it has protested

we have protested

you have protested

they have protested

Present perfect continuous

I have been protesting

you have been protesting

he/she/it has been protesting

we have been protesting

you have been protesting

they have been protesting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I protested

you protested

he/she/it protested

we protested

you protested

they protested

Past continuous

I was protesting

you were protesting

he/she/it was protesting

we were protesting

you were protesting

they were protesting

Past perfect

I had protested

you had protested

he/she/it had protested

we had protested

you had protested

they had protested

Past perfect continuous

I had been protesting

you had been protesting

he/she/it had been protesting

we had been protesting

you had been protesting

they had been protesting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will protest

you will protest

he/she/it will protest

we will protest

you will protest

they will protest

Future continuous

I will be protesting

you will be protesting

he/she/it will be protesting

we will be protesting

you will be protesting

they will be protesting

Future perfect

I will have protested

you will have protested

he/she/it will have protested

we will have protested

you will have protested

they will have protested

Future perfect continuous

I will have been protesting

you will have been protesting

he/she/it will have been protesting

we will have been protesting

you will have been protesting

they will have been protesting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would protest

you would protest

he/she/it would protest

we would protest

you would protest

they would protest

Conditional continuous

I would be protesting

you would be protesting

he/she/it would be protesting

we would be protesting

you would be protesting

they would be protesting

Conditional perfect

I would have protest

you would have protest

he/she/it would have protest

we would have protest

you would have protest

they would have protest

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been protesting

you would have been protesting

he/she/it would have been protesting

we would have been protesting

you would have been protesting

they would have been protesting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you protest
we let´s protest
you protest

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to protest

Past participle

protested

Present Participle

protesting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PROTEST»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «protest» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of protest

affirm · argue · assert · asseverate · attest · avow · complain · complaint · contend · cry out · declaration · declare · demo · demonstrate · demonstration · demur · demurral · disagree · disapproval · disapprove · dissent · expostulate · hikoi · insist · maintain · march · object · objection · oppose · outcry · profess · protestation · rally · remonstrance · remonstrate · sit-in · take exception · take up the cudgels · testify · vow

TRANSLATION OF PROTEST

Find out the translation of protest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of protest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «protest» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 抗议
• Translator English - Spanish: protesta
• English: protest
• Translator English - Hindi: विरोध
• Translator English - Arabic: إِحْتِجَاج
• Translator English - Russian: протест
• Translator English - Portuguese: protesto
• Translator English - Bengali: আপত্তি
• Translator English - French: protestation
• Translator English - Malay: Bantahan
• Translator English - German: Protest
• Translator English - Japanese: 抗議
• Translator English - Korean: 항의
• Translator English - Javanese: Protest
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự phản đối
• Translator English - Tamil: எதிர்ப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: निषेध
• Translator English - Turkish: protesto
• Translator English - Italian: protesta
• Translator English - Polish: protest
• Translator English - Ukrainian: протест
• Translator English - Romanian: protest
• Translator English - Greek: διαμαρτυρία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: protes
• Translator English - Swedish: protestera
• Translator English - Norwegian: protest

10 QUOTES WITH «PROTEST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word protest.

1

Sherman Austin

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.

2

Abu Bakar Bashir

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

3

John Berger

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

4

John Desmond Bernal

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

5

Jello Biafra

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

6

Steve Buyer

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

7

George Clooney

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

8

Rachel Corrie

Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.

9

Joan Cusack

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

10

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTEST»

Discover the use of protest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to protest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements

This volume addresses three major issues: What are the circumstances in which people elect to protest; what are the forms of such action; and how do people organize to do so?

John Lofland, 1985

The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity ...

In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements—into a distinctive new understanding of how social movements work.

James M. Jasper, 2008

Humour and Social Protest

The seventeen essays in this 2008 book examine the power of humour in framing social and political protest.

Marjolein t'Hart, Dennis Bos, 2007

Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile

This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile.

Lisa Baldez, 2002

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente

In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest.

Jeremi Suri, 2009

Popular Protest in China

The contributors to this volume argue that ideas inspired by social movements elsewhere can help explain popular protest in China.

Kevin J OBRIEN, Kevin J O'Brien, 2009

Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism

In this book, first published in 1998, Stephens questions the frameworks which inform commonplace understandings of this period, arguing that the most distinctive forms of sixties protest are often marginalized or excluded from view.

Julie Stephens, 1998

Poetry & Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader

This vital original collection of interviews, poetry and essays is the first book of its kind to bring together the full, forceful range of his work.

Aisha Karim, Lee Sustar, 2006

Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840

An examination of protest from the Gordon Riots of 1780 up to Chartism in the 1830s, first published in 2000.

John E. Archer, 2000

The Policing of Transnational Protest

Bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume examines developments in the policing of transnational protest since the late 1990s.

Donatella Della Porta, Abby Peterson, Herbert Reiter, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROTEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term protest is used in the context of the following news items.

Protests, arrests follow acquittal of Cleveland police officer

CNN video showed police in riot gear moving down East Fourth Street, a strip of restaurants, and pushing back protesters. The officers yelled, "Move back! «CNN, May 15»

Over 140 Arrested as New Yorkers Protest the Death of Freddie Gray

Two of the protesters were arrested after assaulting officers, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said on Thursday. One officer was injured during the ... «New York Times, Apr 15»

Baltimore protests: 5 questions demonstrators are asking

Protesters rallied at Baltimore City Hall on Thursday, and another march is planned for Saturday. Here's a look at key issues protesters are asking about: ... «CNN, Apr 15»

State, county police take over Ferguson protest security after shooting

(CNN) With tensions running high after the shooting of two officers in Ferguson, Missouri, state and county police took over protest security in the St. Louis ... «CNN, Mar 15»

Protesters pack Wisconsin capital after police shooting

About 1,500 demonstrators have held a protest inside the Wisconsin state capitol building, local media reported. The protesters, who were mostly high school ... «BBC News, Mar 15»

Thousands march to protest against police brutality in major US cities

Thousands of Americans took to the streets on Saturday in Washington, New York, and several other cities to protest recent grand jury decisions regarding the ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»

Berkeley, Calif., protest gets violent for second night

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story said the Cal Student Store's window was cracked. Instead, it was The Student Store, a different entity, ... «USA TODAY, Dec 14»

Thousands across USA protest NYC chokehold death

NEW YORK — Protesters across the nation swarmed city streets on Thursday to voice outrage and their demands for police and judicial reform in the wake of ... «USA TODAY, Dec 14»

NFL says it won't discipline Rams players

Tight end Jared Cook said he and his teammates wanted to show solidarity with protesters, because they had not been able to physically join them since the ... «USA TODAY, Dec 14»

Arrests across nation as protesters target Black Friday

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. — One of the St. Louis area 's most popular shopping malls was closed for more than an hour on Black Friday when people ... «USA TODAY, Nov 14»