POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine mean? 

• POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (noun)
  The noun POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE has 1 sense:

1. a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change

  Familiarity information: POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; DFLP; PDFLP; Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Context example:

in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren

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:

Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)