LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lord's Resistance Army mean? 

• LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY (noun)
  The noun LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY has 1 sense:

1. a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army

  Familiarity information: LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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:

Republic of Uganda; Uganda (a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)