saddam's martyrs

1. 1.

   a feared paramilitary unit formed in 1995 by young soldiers to serve Saddam Hussein against domestic opponents

   SynonymsFedayeen Saddam

   Broaderparamilitary

Questions about saddam's martyrs

What does saddam's martyrs mean?

saddam's martyrs means "a feared paramilitary unit formed in 1995 by young soldiers to serve Saddam Hussein against domestic opponents".

What is another word for saddam's martyrs?

Close synonyms include Fedayeen Saddam. 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 saddam's martyrs a common word?

saddam's martyrs 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.