RED ARMY FACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red Army Faction mean? 

• RED ARMY FACTION (noun)
  The noun RED ARMY FACTION has 1 sense:

1. a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998

  Familiarity information: RED ARMY FACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED ARMY FACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

RAF; Red Army Faction

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:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)