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

1 sense of aum

Sense 1
Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth -- (a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity; "in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train")
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)