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POUM

POUM proper noun: workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.

Proper noun

POUM

  1. (historical) Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.
    • We had got to defend the P.O.U.M. buildings if they were attacked, but the P.O.U.M. leaders had sent instructions that we were to stand on the defensive and not open fire if we could possibly avoid it.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

Forms of POUM

alternative formP.O.U.M.

Origin of POUM

Borrowed from Spanish or Catalan POUM.

Questions about POUM

What does POUM mean?
POUM means workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist, revolutionary, communist party formed in Spain in 1935, which was active during the Spanish Civil War.
What part of speech is POUM?
POUM is a proper noun.

Words near POUM in the dictionary

  1. poultrymen
  2. poultrywoman
  3. poultrywomen
  4. poults
  5. Poulynoe
  6. POUM
  7. pounac
  8. pounamu
  9. pounce
  10. pounce upon
  11. pounce wheel

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