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Noun: protester  prow-tes-tu(r)
  1. A person who dissents from some established policy
    "The protester voiced opposition to the new company rules";
    - dissenter, dissident, objector, contestant, protestor
     
  2. Someone who participates in a public display of group feeling
    "The protesters carried signs and chanted slogans";
    - demonstrator, protestor

Derived forms: protesters

Type of: actor, crusader, doer, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer, worker

Encyclopedia: Protester