Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard;
intended to eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and socioeconomic chaos;
[syn: Cultural Revolution, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
n 1: a radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965
and carried out largely by the Red Guard; intended to
eliminate counterrevolutionary elements in the government
it resulted in purges of the intellectuals and
socioeconomic chaos [syn: Cultural Revolution, Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution]