ela

1. 1.

   an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States

   SynonymsRevolutionary People's Struggle

   Broaderterrorist organization

   Greece · terrorism

Other forms of ela

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ela

What does ela mean?

ela means "an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States".

How many syllables are in ela?

ela has 2 syllables: el-a. The stress falls on "el". In IPA it is /ˈɛlə/.

What is another word for ela?

Close synonyms include Revolutionary People's Struggle. 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 ela a common word?

ela is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ela?

1 word rhymes with ela. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.