Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon;
seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel;
is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel;
pioneered suicide bombing;
[syn: Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Hamas
n 1: a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that
opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon;
seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is
opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of
terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
[syn: Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement]