euromaidan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A series of antigovernment protests in Ukraine that started in November 2013.
Example Sentences
- "Large-scale protests, like Euromaidan or the Arab Spring, tend to occur in waves clustered in time and space through the processes of cross-country political contention or diffusion."
- "2016, January 7, Taras Kuzio, "Euromaidan Dreams Deferred", in Foreign Affairs Snapshot At the heart of the Orange and Euromaidan revolutions was a demand by average Ukrainians for justice and dignity."
- "2016, June 1, Adam Hinton interviewed by Laura Snoad, "Adam Hinton's best photograph: an artist painting amid the Kiev uprising", The Guardian In February 2014, it felt like the Euromaidan protests in Kiev's Independence Square, demanding closer integration with Europe, were reaching a peak."
Etymology
2013, from Ukrainian Євромайда́н (Jevromajdán), from Євро́па (Jevrópa, “Europe”) + майда́н (majdán, “square”), named after Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kyiv. Compare maidan.