What does coup d'etat mean?

coup d'etat means "a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force".

What is another word for coup d'etat?

Close synonyms include coup, putsch, takeover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coup d'etat a common word?

coup d'etat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

coup d'etat — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
Synonymscoup putsch takeover
Broadergroup action
Narrowercountercoup Russian Revolution

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