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white terror

white terror noun: coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.

Noun

white terror (countable and uncountable, plural white terrors)

  1. Coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
    • I looked out the window of the former Grand Hotel de Pekin and thought of the days before World War II when I waltzed there with assorted Nazi, fascist and Scandinavian diplomats. On the street the slow‐moving bicycles moved silently where once I listened to the shuffling pad‐pad of camels bringing...1973 May 31, Nym Wales, “‘I Was Back in Peking’”, in The New York Times, sourced from MADISON, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2024, page 41
    Antonyms:
    red terror
  2. (Hong-Kong) The erosion of democratic freedoms under Chinese rule.

Proper noun capitalized: White Terror

White Terror

  1. Any one of several specific white terrors in history.

white terror meaning in Vietnamese

white terror in Vietnamese

violence
khủng bố trắng

Antonyms of white terror

Forms of white terror

pluralwhite terrors

Origin of white terror

By analogy with red terror, with the "white" Thermidorian Reaction against the "red" reign of terror.

Questions about white terror

What does white terror mean?
White terror means coordinated violence committed against (actual or imagined) socialists and their sympathizers.
What is white terror in Vietnamese?
White terror in Vietnamese is khủng bố trắng. See White terror meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is white terror?
White terror can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of white terror?
The plural of white terror is white terrors.

Words near white terror in the dictionary

  1. white teatfish
  2. white telephone
  3. white telephones
  4. white tern
  5. white terns
  6. white terror
  7. white terrors
  8. White Thursday
  9. white tie
  10. white tiger
  11. white tigers

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