Definition of: suffrage

(suf′rij) noun
1. A vote in support of some measure or candidate; hence, approbation; assent.
2. Voting; also, the right or privilege of voting; franchise: also political suffrage.
3. Eccl. Any short intercessory prayer or petition.
—woman suffrage Political suffrage as belonging to or exercised by women. In the United States suffrage was granted to women in 1920 by the 19th amendment to the Constitution: also female suffrage. [<OF <L suffragium a voting tablet, vote]