Baath
or Baʿath, Baʿth
a socialist party of some Arab countries, especially Iraq and Syria.
Origin of Baath
1Other words from Baath
- Ba·ath·ism, noun
- Ba·ath·ist, noun, adjective
Words Nearby Baath
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How to use Baath in a sentence
No regime embodied the dysfunction of the Middle East like Saddam's Baath Party.
The Baath in Iraq was the only government in the world, after the Nazis, to use poison gas on its own people.
But this did not prevent the Baath from thriving, in its day.
The Iraqi Baath achieved a toll of many hundreds of thousands.
On Monday, I spoke by phone to Mohammed, an opposition activist hiding out in the Al-Shams area of Homs near Al-Baath University.
British Dictionary definitions for Ba'ath
/ (bɑːˈɑːθ) /
a variant of Ba'th
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