BASQUE FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY
Dictionary entry overview: What does Basque Fatherland and Liberty mean?
• BASQUE FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY (noun)
The noun BASQUE FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY has 1 sense:
1. a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create on independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
Familiarity information: BASQUE FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BASQUE FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY (noun)
Meaning:
A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create on independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Basque Fatherland and Liberty; Basque Homeland and Freedom; ETA; Euskadi ta Askatasuna
Context example:
in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials
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:
Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)
