Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vanguards_of_conquest

1 sense of vanguards of conquest

Sense 1
al-Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad, Vanguards of Conquest -- (an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells; "the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981")
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)