countergovernment
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A government set up in opposition to another government.
Example Sentences
- "The Yugoslav federation was foreshadowed in the way armed struggle was organized and by the countergovemment that was forged in armed struggle, embodied in 1943 in the underground parliament called AVNOJ (after its Serbo-Croatian initials)."
Etymology
From counter- + government.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
countergovernments (plural)
counter-government (alternative)