Eta - Definition

eta

n 1: a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student
activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate
nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create
an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in
1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of
government officials" [syn: Basque Homeland and Freedom,
Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna,
ETA]
2: the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

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