AL-JIHAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does al-Jihad mean? 

• AL-JIHAD (noun)
  The noun AL-JIHAD has 1 sense:

1. an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells

  Familiarity information: AL-JIHAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AL-JIHAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

al-Jihad; Egyptian Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad; Vanguards of Conquest

Context example:

the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)