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Lud·dite ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ldt)
n.
Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
One who opposes technical or technological change.
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[After Ned Ludd, an English laborer who was supposed to have destroyed weaving machinery around 1779.]
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Luddism n.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
luddite
\Lud"dite\, n. One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. --J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
luddite
n 1: any opponent of technological progress [syn: Luddite] 2: one of the 19th century English workman who destroyed labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment [syn: Luddite]
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