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AUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Aum mean?
• AUM (noun)
The noun AUM has 1 sense:
1. a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity
Familiarity information: AUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Aum; Aum Shinrikyo; Supreme Truth
Context example:
in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train
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:
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
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