FIFTH COLUMN

Meaning of FIFTH COLUMN in English

an inside group of supporters of an outside force, possibly traitors (See also the fifth column )

Our children prevented our divorce. They knew who was causing our breakup - they were like a fifth column!

(definition provided by Claudia Crowley )

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

FIFTH COLUMN — noun Etymology: name applied to rebel sympathizers in Madrid in 1936 when four rebel columns were advancing on the city …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FIFTH COLUMN — noun Etymology: translation of Spanish quinta columna; from the fact that during the Spanish Civil War rebel sympathizers in Madrid …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIFTH COLUMN — — fifth columnist . 1. a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIFTH COLUMN — people willing to cooperate with an aggressor against their own country, secret supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FIFTH COLUMN — Etymology: name applied to rebel sympathizers in Madrid in 1936 when four rebel columns were advancing on the city Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FIFTH COLUMN — Function: noun Etymology: name applied to rebel sympathizers in Madrid in 1936 when four rebel columns were advancing on the …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FIFTH COLUMN — ■ noun a group within a country at war who are working for its enemies. Derivatives ~ist noun Origin 1930s: …
Concise Oxford English vocab
FIFTH COLUMN — [fifth column] n [name applied to rebel sympathizers in Madrid in 1936 when four rebel columns were advancing on the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FIFTH COLUMN — clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity by any means at their disposal. …
Britannica English vocabulary
FIFTH COLUMN — noun a group of people working secretly to help the enemy of the country or organization they are in ► …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIFTH COLUMN — ˌfifth ˈcolumn BrE AmE noun [countable] a group of people who work secretly to help the enemies of the country …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FIFTH COLUMN — Synonyms and related words : Judas-like, Trojan horse, Trojan-horse, betraying, collaborationist, collaborator, crypto, double-crossing, fellow traveler, fifth columnist, fraternizer, quisling, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIFTH COLUMN — {n. phr.} A group or organization within a country that works to bring about the country's downfall, usually through acts …
Slang English vocab
FIFTH COLUMN — {n. phr.} A group or organization within a country that works to bring about the country's downfall, usually through acts …
Словарь английских идиом
FIFTH COLUMN — n. phr. A group or organization within a country that works to bring about the country's downfall, usually through acts …
American Idioms English vocabulary
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FIFTH COLUMN — Пятая колонна
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна, предатели внутри страны или организации
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна
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FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна
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FIFTH COLUMN — сущ. пятая колонна а) ( агентура генерала Франко в Испанской республике во время Национально-революционной войны 1936-39 ) б) ( организованное …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FIFTH COLUMN — сущ. пятая колонна а) (агентура генерала Франко в Испанской республике во время Национально-революционной войны 1936-39) б) (организованное предательство внутри страны)
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна, предатели внутри страны или организации
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна, предатели внутри страны или организации
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна
English-Russian Online Dictionary
FIFTH COLUMN — пятая колонна
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
FIFTH — noun (plural ~s) Etymology: Middle English fifte, ~e, from Old English fīfta, from fīf five Date: before 12th century see: …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FIFTH — I. ˈfif(t)th, ˈfift, rapid or substand ˈfith adjective Etymology: Middle English fifte, fifthe, adjective & noun, from Old English fīfta …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COLUMN — ˈkäləm, sometimes ÷ -lyəm noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English columne, from Middle French colomne, from Latin columna, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIFTH — (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.
Английский словарь Webster
FIFTH — /fifth/ or, often, /fith/ , adj. 1. next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five. 2. being one …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIFTH — noun ( plural fifths ˈfiths, ˈfif(t)ths, ˈfif(t)s) Etymology: Middle English fifte, fifthe, from Old English fīfta, from fīf five Date: …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COLUMN — ˈkäl-yəm noun Etymology: Middle English columne, from Anglo-French columpne, from Latin columna, from columen top; akin to Latin collis hill …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FIFTH — adj consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. 2. fifth ·adj next in order after the fourth; …
Webster English vocab
COLUMN — noun a small army. 2. column ·noun a perpendicular line of figures. 3. column ·noun the body formed by the …
Webster English vocab
FIFTH — ■ ordinal number 1》 constituting number five in a sequence; 5th. 2》 ( a ~/one ~ ) each of five …
Concise Oxford English vocab
FIFTH — [fifth] n, pl fifths (bef. 12c) 1: one that is number five in a countable series 2. a: the musical …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COLUMN — in architecture, a vertical element, usually a rounded shaft with a capital and base, which in most cases serves as …
Britannica English vocabulary
FIFTH — fifth BrE AmE fɪfθ fɪftθ, fɪθ ▷ fifths fɪfθs fɪftθs, fɪfs, fɪθs ▶ ˌ Fifth A ˈ mendment BrE AmE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FIFTH — / fɪfθ; NAmE / ordinal number , noun ■ ordinal number 5th : Today is the fifth (of May). the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COLUMN — / ˈkɒləm; NAmE ˈkɑːləm/ noun 1. a tall, solid, vertical post, usually round and made of stone, which supports or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIFTH — I. fifth 1 /fɪfθ/ BrE AmE adjective [ Language: Old English ; Origin: fifta , from fif 'five' ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COLUMN — col ‧ umn S3 W2 /ˈkɒləm $ ˈkɑː-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Old French ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FIFTH — n. & adj. --n. 1 the position in a sequence corresponding to that of the number 5 in the sequence …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FIFTH — n. & adj. n. 1 the position in a sequence corresponding to that of the number 5 in the sequence …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
COLUMN — n. 1 Archit. an upright cylindrical pillar often slightly tapering and usu. supporting an entablature or arch, or standing alone …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FIFTH — n. & adj. --n. 1. the position in a sequence corresponding to that of the number 5 in the sequence …
Oxford English vocab
COLUMN — n.1 Archit. an upright cylindrical pillar often slightly tapering and usu. supporting an entablature or arch, or standing alone as …
Oxford English vocab
FIFTH — ( fifths) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The fifth item in …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COLUMN — ( columns) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A column is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIFTH — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES fifth column PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES plead/take the Fifth (Amendment) EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
COLUMN — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a column/plume of smoke ▪ He could see a thin black column of smoke rising …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FIFTH — [determiner], [pronoun], [adjective], [adverb] [not gradable], nounthe fifth floor of the buildingTomorrow is the fifth of September.She is fifth in …
Cambridge English vocab
FIFTH — See: TAKE THE FIFTH.
Slang English vocab
FIFTH — n. ( colloq. ) ( AE ) the Fifth Amendment protecting witnesses against self-incrimination to invoke, take the ~
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
FIFTH — See: TAKE THE FIFTH.
Словарь английских идиом
FIFTH — 1. числ. поряд. пятый а) при счете предметов, объектов, явлений б) в идиоматических выражениях в значении 'лишний' fifth wheel ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
COLUMN — сущ. 1) архит. колонна column foot 2) перен. поддержка He did not require a religion to be the column of …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FIFTH — fifth.ogg 1. fıfθ n 1. (the fifth) пятое (число) on the fifth of May - пятого мая 2. пятый (человек) …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
COLUMN — column.ogg ʹkɒləm n 1. архит. колонна 2. столб(ик) column of water smoke - столб воды дыма column of mercury - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
COLUMN
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
COLUMN
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
COLUMN — 1) графа; колонка; столбец 2) архит. колонна; столб 3) колонка; стойка 4) столбик 5) колонна (напр., буровых труб) 6) рубрика; раздел (в газете) • along the column …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
FIFTH — fifth числ. поряд.пятыйа) при счете предметов, объектов, явленийб) в идиоматических выражениях в значении "лишний" fifth wheel — пятое колесо (у …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger

English Idioms vocabulary

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