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COUP D'ETAT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by forceplay

Synonyms:

coup; coup d'etat; putsch; takeover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("coup d'etat" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coup d'etat"):

countercoup (a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat)

Instance hyponyms:

October Revolution; Russian Revolution (the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922)

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