SHINING PATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shining Path mean? 

• SHINING PATH (noun)
  The noun SHINING PATH has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade

  Familiarity information: SHINING PATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHINING PATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Sendero Luminoso; Shining Path; SL

Context example:

Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths

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:

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

 Context examples 

The tracks of the tire began to curve fantastically upon the wet and shining path.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After I had said my prayers, and the candle had burnt out, I remember how I still sat looking at the moonlight on the water, as if I could hope to read my fortune in it, as in a bright book; or to see my mother with her child, coming from Heaven, along that shining path, to look upon me as she had looked when I last saw her sweet face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)