SENDERO LUMINOSO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sendero Luminoso mean? 

• SENDERO LUMINOSO (noun)
  The noun SENDERO LUMINOSO has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade

  Familiarity information: SENDERO LUMINOSO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENDERO LUMINOSO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Sendero Luminoso; Shining Path; SL

Context example:

Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths

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:

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)