swastika
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
swastika
- (countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, and adopted more recently (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of National Socialism and fascism.
- (fascism, history, metonym, uncountable) Nazi rule.
- Black Spider
- (in heraldry) crooked cross, cross cramponned, cross cramponnée, cross cramponny
- cross gammadion, gammadion, gammation
- (chiefly in architecture and heraldry) fylfot
- hooked cross
- manji
- sauwastika, sauvastika
- sun wheel
- tetraskelion
- Thor's hammer (rare; more commonly refers to a T-shaped symbol)
- thunder cross
- twisted cross
- French: svastika, croix gammée
- German: Swastika, Hakenkreuz
- Italian: svastica, croce gammata
- Portuguese: suástica, cruz gamada
- Russian: сва́стика
- Spanish: esvástica, cruz gamada, suástica
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