Meaning

1 senses

  1. A 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 sentences

  1. Wokeness is as real as the Doctors' Plot and the Röhm Putsch, and serves the same purpose.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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 imit

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

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Forms

plural: putsches
Singularputsch
Pluralputsches

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
coupcoup d'état
Close in meaning
  • a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force:coup d'etatcouptakeover

Word family

3 related words
Derivedputscherputschismputschist

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
putA1putativeputridputtputter

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