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Eta

noun

A terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees. Synonyms: Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna.

The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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"Eta" Quotes from Famous Books

... From Marcle way, From Dymock, Kempley, Newent, Bromesberrow, Redmarley, all the meadowland daffodils seem Running in golden tides to Ryton Firs, To make the knot of steep little wooded hills Their brightest show: O bella eta de l'oro! Now I breathe you again, my woods of Ryton: Not only golden with your daffodil-fires Lying in pools on the loose dusky ground Beneath the larches, tumbling in broad rivers Down sloping grass under the cherry trees And ...

— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various

Words linked to "Eta" : Spain, Espana, letter of the alphabet, Basque Homeland and Freedom, act of terrorism, FTO, letter, foreign terrorist organization, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Greek alphabet, terrorist organization, Kingdom of Spain, terrorist act, alphabetic character, terrorist group, terrorism