RED BRIGADES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red Brigades mean? 

• RED BRIGADES (noun)
  The noun RED BRIGADES has 1 sense:

1. a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED BRIGADES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

BR; Brigate Rosse; Red Brigades

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:

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)