RED SUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red Sun mean? 

• RED SUN (noun)
  The noun RED SUN has 1 sense:

1. a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings

  Familiarity information: RED SUN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED SUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Puka Inti; Red Sun; Sol Rojo

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:

Ecuador; Republic of Ecuador (a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes)

 Context examples 

She paused, and the red sun shot up.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All this Alleyne listened to, until the dark keep of Twynham towered above them in the gloaming, and they saw the red sun lying athwart the rippling Avon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)