tory

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution
noun a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs
noun a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative

See Tory.

Cornelia is a Tory, too. — Anne's House of Dreams, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
128 Tory approval of, ii. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams
Character of a tory, 277. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle

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