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

1 sense of gunpowder plot

Sense 1
Gunpowder Plot -- (a conspiracy in 1605 in England to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament to avenge the persecution of Catholics in England; led by Guy Fawkes)
       => conspiracy, cabal -- (a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot))