ARMY OF THE RIGHTEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Army of the Righteous mean? 

• ARMY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (noun)
  The noun ARMY OF THE RIGHTEOUS has 1 sense:

1. a brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India

  Familiarity information: ARMY OF THE RIGHTEOUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Army of the Pure; Army of the Righteous; Lashkar-e-Taiba; Lashkar-e-Tayyiba; Lashkar-e-Toiba; LET

Context example:

Lashkar-e-Toiba has committed mass murders of civilian Hindus

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:

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)