hamas

1. 1.

   a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing

   SynonymsIslamic Resistance Movement

   Broaderterrorist organization

   PartsQassam Brigades

   terrorism

Other forms of hamas

plural

hamases·

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 hamas

What does hamas mean?

hamas means "a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing".

How many syllables are in hamas?

hamas has 2 syllables: ha-mas. The stress falls on "mas". In IPA it is /ˌhɑˈmɑs/.

What is another word for hamas?

Close synonyms include Islamic Resistance Movement. 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 hamas a common word?

hamas 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.