Meanings
plural putsches
- A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
1 more example
2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98. "They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."
Synonyms: coup, coup d'état
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Alemannic GermanPutsch“knock, thrust, blow”
- GermanPutsch
- Englishputsch
Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.
More words from German, Alemannic German
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic اِنْقِلَاب
- اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Bulgarian пуч
- пуч (puč)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Catalan cop d'estat
- cop d'estata coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Chinese Mandarin 叛亂 /叛乱, 政變 /政变
- 叛亂 /叛乱 (pànluàn)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- 政變 /政变 (zhèngbiàn)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Czech puč
- puča coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Esperanto puĉo, ŝtatrenverso
- puĉoa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- ŝtatrenversoa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Estonian putš
- putša coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Finnish vallankaappaus
- vallankaappausa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
French coup d'État, putsch
- coup d'Étata coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- putscha coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
German Putsch
- Putscha coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Greek πραξικόπημα
- πραξικόπημα (praxikópima)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Hebrew פּוּטְשׁ
- פּוּטְשׁ (putsh)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Hungarian puccs
- puccsa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Latvian pučs
- pučsa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Lithuanian pučas
- pučasa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Māori upokotaua
- upokotauaa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Polish pucz
- pucza coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Portuguese putsch, golpe de estado
- putscha coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- golpe de estadoa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- golpea coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Romanian puci, lovitură de stat
- pucia coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- lovitură de stata coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Russian путч, переворо́т
- путч (putč)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- переворо́т (perevorót)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Slovak puč
- puča coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Spanish putsch, alzamiento
- putscha coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- alzamientoa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- pronunciamientoa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- golpea coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- militaradaa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Swedish statskupp
- statskuppa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Turkish darbe
- darbea coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Ukrainian путч, переворо́т
- путч (putč)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
- переворо́т (perevorót)a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Yiddish ּפּוטש
- ּפּוטשa coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with putsch
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