interahamwe

1. 1.

   a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again

   “in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists”

   SynonymsArmy for the Liberation of RwandaALIRFormer Armed ForcesFAR

   Broaderterrorist organization

   Rwanda · terrorism

Other forms of interahamwe

plural

interahamwes·

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 interahamwe

What does interahamwe mean?

interahamwe means "a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again".

How many syllables are in interahamwe?

interahamwe has 4 syllables: in-te-ra-hamwe. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for interahamwe?

Close synonyms include Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR. 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 interahamwe a common word?

interahamwe 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.