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anticommunism

UK/æntɪˈkɒmjʊnɪzəm/

anticommunism noun: opposition to communism.

Noun

anticommunism (usually uncountable, plural anticommunisms)

  1. (usually) Opposition to communism.
    • In the main, anticommunism in postwar America meant opposition to the kind of dictatorial state socialism that existed in Russia and that many Americans saw as a negation of everything America stood for. In the 1946 campaign, for example, when I talked about the "communist-dominated PAC," my...1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47

anticommunism meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Indonesian

anticommunism in Tamil

கம்யூனிச எதிர்ப்பு, பொதுவுடைமை எதிர்ப்பு

anticommunism in Tagalog

against communism
labankalamaan

anticommunism in Indonesian

against communism
antikomunisme

Forms of anticommunism

pluralanticommunisms
alternative formanti-communism
alternative formanti-Communism

Origin of anticommunism

From anti- + communism.

Questions about anticommunism

What does anticommunism mean?
Anticommunism means opposition to communism.
What is anticommunism in Tamil?
Anticommunism in Tamil is கம்யூனிச எதிர்ப்பு, பொதுவுடைமை எதிர்ப்பு. See Anticommunism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anticommunism?
Anticommunism is a noun.
How do you pronounce anticommunism?
Anticommunism is pronounced /æntɪˈkɒmjʊnɪzəm/ (UK).
What is the plural of anticommunism?
The plural of anticommunism is anticommunisms.

Words near anticommunism in the dictionary

  1. anticommission
  2. anticommodification
  3. anticommons
  4. anticommunication
  5. anticommunications
  6. anticommunism
  7. anticommunisms
  8. anticommunist
  9. anticommunistic
  10. anticommunists
  11. anticommunities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anticommunism (page history and authors); anticommunism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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