putsch
putsch · putsches
путч, переворот
путч, переворот
Putsch
A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current governmentA coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
/pʊt͡ʃ/
» Wokeness is as real as the Doctors' Plot and the Röhm Putsch, and serves the same purpose.
Meaning
1 sensesA coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
Putsch
путчputč, переворо́тperevorót
путчputč, переворо́тperevorót
More definitions
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
Examples
1 sentencesWokeness is as real as the Doctors' Plot and the Röhm Putsch, and serves the same purpose.
Translations
8 languagesУкраїнська
By meaning 1
a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government:
Русский
By meaning 1
a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a coup; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government:
Origin
Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitBorrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.
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Forms
plural: putschesSynonyms
4 synonymsClose in meaning
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force:coup d'etatcouptakeover