eta

Noun
  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 an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees (synset 108034942)
    "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials"
    referred to in: act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the 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
    is an instance of: foreign terrorist organization, fto, terrorist group, terrorist organization - a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
    same as: basque fatherland and liberty, basque homeland and freedom, euskadi ta askatasuna
  2. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet (synset 106847830)
    is a type of: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
    belongs to: greek alphabet - the alphabet used by ancient Greeks

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