fascist

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Of or relating to fascism.
2. Supporting the principles of fascism.
3. (informal) Unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.

Noun

A proponent of fascism.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfæʃɪst/

Etimologie (Engels)

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.

Sinne

This role was a broad parody of the fascist then-dictator of Italy , Benito Mussolini .