ELN
Dictionary entry overview: What does ELN mean?
• ELN (noun)
The noun ELN has 2 senses:
1. a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade
2. a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
Familiarity information: ELN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ELN (noun)
Meaning:
A Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
ELN; National Liberation Army
Context example:
ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations
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:
Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)
Meaning:
A terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
CNPZ; Nestor Paz Zamora Commission; ELN; National Liberation Army
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:
Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia (a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain)
