terrorist
A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
Other meanings
An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
Related words
- agroterrorist
- antiterrorist
- archterrorist
- bioterrorist
- cyberterrorist
- Islamoterrorist
- narcoterrorist
- nonterrorist
- superterrorist
- terroristical
- theoterrorist
- counterterrorist
Word history
From French "terroriste".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “terrorist” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.