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    COUP D'ETAT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by forceplay

    Synonyms:

    coup; coup d'etat; putsch; takeover

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("coup d'etat" is a kind of...):

    group action (action taken by a group of people)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coup d'etat"):

    countercoup (a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat)

    Instance hyponyms:

    October Revolution; Russian Revolution (the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922)

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