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> 1 sense of the expression
social movement
:
NOUN
group
social movement
,
movement
,
front
a
group
of people with a common
ideology
/
ideology
who
try
together to
achieve
certain
general
goals
English
>
social movement
: 1 sense
> noun 1, group
Meaning
A
group
of people with a common
ideology
/
ideology
who
try
together to
achieve
certain
general
goals
.
Synonyms
movement
,
front
Narrower
Boy Scouts
An international (but
decentralized
)
movement
started
in 1908 in
England
with the
goal
of
teaching
good
citizenship
to
boys
Civil Rights movement
movement
in the
United States
beginning in the
1960s
and led
primarily
by
Blacks
in an
effort
to establish the
civil rights
of
individual
Black
citizens
Free French
,
Fighting French
A French
movement
during
World War II
that was
organized
in
London
by
Charles de Gaulle
to
fight
for the
liberation
of
France
from
German
control and for the
restoration
of the
republic
Zionism
,
Zionist movement
A
movement
of
world
Jewry
that arose late in the
19th
century with the
aim
of
creating
a
Jewish
state
in
Palestine
artistic movement
,
art movement
A
group
of
artists
who
agree
on
general
principles
/
principles
common front
A
movement
in which several
individuals
or
groups
with different
interests
join
together
cultural movement
A
group
of people working together to advance certain
cultural
goals
ecumenism
,
oecumenism
A
movement
promoting union between religions (especially between
Christian churches
)
falun gong
A
spiritual
movement
that began in
China
in the
latter
half
of the
20th
century and is based on
Buddhist
and
Taoist
teachings
and
practices
political movement
A
group
of people working together to
achieve
a political
goal
reform movement
A
movement
intended to
bring about
social
and
humanitarian
reforms
religious movement
A
movement
intended to
bring about
religious
reforms
Broader
social group
People sharing some
social relation
Spanish
movimiento
,
movimiento social
Catalan
front
,
moviment
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