Fascist Meaning

/ˈfæʃɪst/
B2

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adjOf or relating to fascism.

adjSupporting the principles of fascism.

Mussolini was leader of the fascist dictatorship.
Tom is a fascist.
The only good fascist is a dead fascist.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The dictator imposed a strict ____ government on the people.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Opposition groups criticized the new security law, calling it a ____ measure to silence dissent.

Etymology tree Latin fascis Italian fascio Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. Italian -ista Italian fascistader. English fascist 1921, from Italian fascista, from fascio (“bundle, bunch”), in use metonymically for "group of men organized for political purposes" since 1895. Ultimately with reference to the fasces or bundles of axes and rods carried before the magistrates of ancient Rome in token of their power of life and death.

"Under demagogues such as Donald Trump in the U.S., Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Recep Erdoğan in Turkey, Narendra Modi in India and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a moral abyss has emerged in which state violence, widespread repression and a surge of lawlessness against those considered disposable have become the hallmark of an updated fascist politics." — 2020 March 2, Henry A. Giroux, “Auschwitz Survivors Don’t Want Their Past to Be Their Grandchildren’s Future”, in Truthout, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2021:
"[I]f I can shoot rabbits / Then I can shoot fascists." — 1998, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”, in This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, performed by Manic Street Preachers:
"Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades." — 2019 October 24, “Franco exhumation: Spanish dictator's remains moved”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2023:
"In May 1929 Hitler successfully prosecuted a libel action against right-wing and left-wing opponents who had accused him of ‘betraying’ the South Tyrol in return for Fascist gold." — 1978, Meir Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian relations and the Jewish question in Italy, 1922–1945, Clarendon Press, page 46:
"By the late 1930s Rome had new Fascist bridges, a new university, four new post offices and a number of new ministry buildings, which included, on Via Veneto, the Ministry of Corporations, that were to be Fascism’s answer to capitalist exploitation and Marxist class hatred." — 2019, Matthew Kneale, “seven”, in Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, published 2017, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305:

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The dictator imposed a strict ____ government on the people.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Opposition groups criticized the new security law, calling it a ____ measure to silence dissent.

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