INTIFADAH
Dictionary entry overview: What does intifadah mean? • INTIFADAH (noun)
The noun INTIFADAH has 1 sense:
1. an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000
Familiarity information: INTIFADAH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INTIFADAH (noun)
Meaning:
An uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
intifada; intifadah
Context example:
the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993
Hypernyms ("intifadah" is a kind of...):
insurrection; rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising (organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another)
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