objector

English

Etymology

Partly from Latin obiector and partly from object +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

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Noun

objector (plural objectors)

1. A person who objects to something.

   Synonym: objectant

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "It would be amusing, sir, to shut these various objectors up in a room and let them settle it among themselves."

   • 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:

     The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.

   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 112:

     But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.

Derived terms

• conscientious objector

Related terms

• objection

Translations

a person who objects

• Bulgarian: възразяващ (bg) m (vǎzrazjavašt)
• Irish: agóideoir m
• Maori: kaiwhakatūtū, kaitāwari
• Polish: oponent (pl) m, oponentka (pl) f
• Slovak: odporca