coup
A quick, brilliant, and highly successful actA quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
» Do you think there will be a coup?
Значение
значений: 6A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
Coup
(США, историческое)Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
A coup d'état.
(шире)A takeover of one group by another.
Coup
переворо́тperevorót
A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- a brilliant and notable success
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
Примеры
предложений: 46Do you think there will be a coup?
The coup was carried out carefully.
Переворот был выполнен тщательно.
We only have secondhand information of the coup.
У нас есть только информация из вторых рук о перевороте.
The dictator seized power in a military coup.
Диктатор захватил власть путём военного переворота.
deDer Diktator ergriff durch einen Militärschlag die Macht.
The coup attempt was foiled at the last moment.
Попытка переворота была нейтрализована в последний момент.
deDer Staatsstreich wurde im letzten Moment verhindert.
Переводы
языков: 4По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup,Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).
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Формы
мн. число: coupsСинонимы
синонимов: 4- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force:coup d'etatputschtakeover