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putsch

/pʊt͡ʃ/

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putsch noun: a coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

Noun

putsch (plural putsches)

  1. A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
    • Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
    • "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal...
    Synonyms:
    coup, coup d'état

putsch meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

putsch in Urdu

putsch, coup
اچانک شورش ačānak šoriš

putsch in Bengali

হঠাৎ রাজনৈতিক অভ্যুত্থান, বিদ্রোহ

putsch in Arabic

a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
اِنْقِلَاب inqilāb

Synonyms of putsch

Forms of putsch

pluralputsches

Origin of putsch

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

Words formed from putsch

Words that rhyme with putsch

Questions about putsch

What does putsch mean?
Putsch means a coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
What is putsch in Urdu?
Putsch in Urdu is اچانک شورش (ačānak šoriš). See Putsch meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is putsch?
Putsch is a noun.
How do you pronounce putsch?
Putsch is pronounced /pʊt͡ʃ/.
What is the plural of putsch?
The plural of putsch is putsches.

Words near putsch in the dictionary

  1. puts up to
  2. puts up with
  3. puts wood in t'hole
  4. puts wood in t’hole
  5. puts words in someone's mouth
  6. putsch
  7. putscher
  8. putschers
  9. putsches
  10. putschism
  11. putschist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: putsch (page history and authors); اچانک شورش (Urdu) (page history and authors); putsch (Bengali 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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