tigers

1. 1.

   a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel

   “the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war”

   SynonymsLiberation Tigers of Tamil EelamLTTETamil TigersWorld Tamil AssociationWorld Tamil Movement

   Broaderterrorist organization

   Sri Lanka · terrorism

Other forms of tigers

plural

tigerses·

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 tigers

What does tigers mean?

tigers means "a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel".

How many syllables are in tigers?

tigers has 2 syllables: ti-gers. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪɡɚz/.

What is another word for tigers?

Close synonyms include Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil 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 tigers a common word?

tigers is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.