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GUNPOWDER PLOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gunpowder Plot mean?
• GUNPOWDER PLOT (noun)
The noun GUNPOWDER PLOT has 1 sense:
1. a conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes
Familiarity information: GUNPOWDER PLOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Gunpowder Plot" is a kind of...):
cabal; conspiracy (a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot))
Context examples
In this coffer, his riches hid themselves with such a tenacious modesty, that the smallest instalments could only be tempted out by artifice; so that Peggotty had to prepare a long and elaborate scheme, a very Gunpowder Plot, for every Saturday's expenses.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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