Fascist

See also: fascist

English

Several Fascists.

Adjective

Fascist (not comparable)

1. (fascism, history) Of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Italy from 1922–1943.

   Hypernym: Italian

   • 1978, Meir Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian relations and the Jewish question in Italy, 1922–1945‎^[1], Clarendon Press, page 46:

     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.

   • 2019, Matthew Kneale, “seven”, in Rome: A History in Seven Sackings‎^[2], New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, published 2017, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305:

     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.

Noun

Fascist (plural Fascists)

1. (fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) A member of the National Fascist Party in Italy from 1922 to 1943.

   Hypernym: fascist

2. (fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) Synonym of Nazi
   • 2010, German Sadulaev, I Am a Chechen!‎^[3], Random House, →ISBN, section 10, page 199:

     The Fascists invaded the USSR, they occupied many cities, they killed millions of people, they destroyed half the country.