COUNTERCOUP

countercoup

(noun) a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d’etat

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

countercoup (plural countercoups)

A coup which seeks to overthrow the government installed by a previous coup

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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