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EUSKADI TA ASKATASUNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Euskadi ta Askatasuna mean? 

EUSKADI TA ASKATASUNA (noun)
  The noun EUSKADI TA ASKATASUNA has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyreneesplay

  Familiarity information: EUSKADI TA ASKATASUNA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EUSKADI TA ASKATASUNA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Basque Fatherland and Liberty; Basque Homeland and Freedom; ETA; Euskadi ta Askatasuna

Context example:

in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)


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