nnoun.groupa terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnelTopic:act of terrorismterrorismterrorist act
Region:CeylonDemocratic Socialist Republic of Sri LankaSri Lanka
Synset:LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Tamil Tigers Tigers World Tamil Association World Tamil Movement
Examples:- the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war
Instance Hypernyms:FTO foreign terrorist organization terrorist group terrorist organization
Inherited Hypernyms:liberation tigers of tamil eelamterrorist organizationpolitical movementmovementsocial groupgroupabstractionentity
nnoun.persona fierce or audacious personExamples:- he's a tiger on the tennis court
- it aroused the tiger in me
Hypernyms:individual mortal person somebody someone soul
Inherited Hypernyms:tigerpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:tigerpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
nnoun.animallarge feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangeredSynset:Panthera tigris tiger
Member Holonyms:Panthera genus Panthera
Hypernyms:big cat cat
Inherited Hypernyms:tigerbig catfelinecarnivoreplacentalmammalvertebratechordateanimalorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
Direct Hyponyms:Bengal tigertiger cubtigress
Full Hyponyms:bengal tigertiger cubtigress