FIGHTING FRENCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fighting French mean? 

• FIGHTING FRENCH (noun)
  The noun FIGHTING FRENCH has 1 sense:

1. a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic

  Familiarity information: FIGHTING FRENCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIGHTING FRENCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Fighting French; Free French

Hypernyms ("Fighting French" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

Domain category:

Second World War; World War 2; World War II (a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from 1939 to 1945)