AUM SHINRIKYO

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aum Shinrikyo mean? 

• AUM SHINRIKYO (noun)
  The noun AUM SHINRIKYO has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity

  Familiarity information: AUM SHINRIKYO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUM SHINRIKYO (noun)

Meaning:

A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Aum; Aum Shinrikyo; Supreme Truth

Context example:

in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train

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 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:

Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)