suffragist vs exponent

suffragist and exponent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
suffragist	Yes	No	No	No
exponent	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, exponent is a hypernym of suffragist; that is, exponent is a word with a broader meaning than suffragist:

suffragist: an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
exponent: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

Other hypernyms of suffragist include advocate, advocator, proponent.

suffragist (noun)	exponent (noun)
an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)	a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
	a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
	someone who expounds and interprets or explains