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Talibans

Talibans is the plural of Taliban.

Meaning of Taliban

Noun

Taliban (plural Taliban or Talibans)

  1. A Taliban militia.
    • We will deal with the Afghan Taliban through dialogue. And we will handle the Pakistani Taliban with bullets.2005 April 28, Scott Baldauf, quoting Merajuddin Pathan, “Taliban coming in from cold”, in The Christian Science Monitor^(https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202450/https://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0428...
  2. A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.
  3. A censorious or bigoted moralist.
    • If the Tory Taliban can't get that, they'll condemn us all to oblivion.2005 July 18, Alan Duncan, “The Tory Taliban must be rooted out”, in The Guardian

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Questions about Talibans

What is Talibans the plural of?
Talibans is the plural of Taliban.

Words near Talibans in the dictionary

  1. Talibanization
  2. Talibanize
  3. Talibanized
  4. Talibanizes
  5. Talibanizing
  6. Talibans
  7. Talibaptist
  8. Talibaptists
  9. Talibon
  10. Talibs
  11. Talien

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