metapolitefsi

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noun

A transitional period in modern Greek history after the fall of the military junta of 1967–74, leading to elections and democracy.

OriginGreek μεταπολίτευση →
First used 20th c.Scrabble 20
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Meanings

nounmetapolitefsi (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableA transitional period in modern Greek history after the fall of the military junta of 1967–74, leading to elections and democracy.First known use 20th c.

    In the event, metapolitefsi came to stand for far more wide-ranging transformations than those to the political system, drastic though these were.

    2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 345

Origin

  1. Greekμεταπολίτευση“regime change”
  2. Englishmetapolitefsi

Borrowed from Greek μεταπολίτευση (metapolítefsi, “regime change”).

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