English noun: social movement | |||
1. | social movement (group) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | ||
Samples | He was a charter member of the movement. Politicians have to respect a mass movement. He led the national liberation front. | ||
Synonyms | front, movement | ||
Broader (hypernym) | social group | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | art movement, artistic movement, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, falun gong, Fighting French, Free French, oecumenism, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, Zionism, Zionist movement | ||