BROWNSHIRT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Nazi SA which wore brown uniforms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Brownshirt" is a kind of...):

German Nazi; Nazi (a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Holonyms ("Brownshirt" is a member of...):

SA; Storm Troops; Sturmabteilung (Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943)

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