etarra
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of the Basque terrorist nationalist organization ETA.
Example Sentences
- "However, many "Etarras" left the group unimpeded in the late 1970s and 1980s, availing of amnesties and deals offered by the Spanish government under a policy quaintly known as "social reinsertion". […] As their net tightens, Carlos draws up an elaborate, tragically flawed scheme to spring the Etarras from the trap and release himself from his commitments."
- "The French government, which used to offer political asylum rather freely and turned a blind eye to the refugees in the French Basque country, kept refusing to extradite the etarras (ETA members)"
- "One year later, the Third Assembly revealed the increasinginfluence of Julen Madariaga’s Third Worldist faction. Madariaga was also the Etarra who devised the Action-Reaction Spiral (Formulation and Internal Initiator)."