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National Liberation Front, a Greek underground resistance movement of World War II and political coalition of various leftist groups.

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Origin of EAM

<Modern Greek E(thnikō) A(pelevtherōtikò) M(étōpo)

Words nearby EAM

eagre, EAK, Eakins, ealdorman, Ealing, EAM, Eames, Eames chair, -ean, E & OE, eanling

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How to use EAM in a sentence

Assurgant proceres, ac velut aureum Et cleste jubar rite colant eam.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects|Giorgio Vasari
Et lux in tenebris erat, et tenebræ eam non comprehenderunt.
New Poems|Francis Thompson
Non aboleas eam totam (the Latin mass): satis est alicubi miscere Germanicas cantationes.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV|J. H. Merle D'Aubign
Deponat ecclesia episcopum suum, quod ad eam spectet judicare de voce pastorum.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV|J. H. Merle D'Aubign

Sed et spicula, qu in eam coniecta fuerant, eluso mittentis conatu lsionis irrita resultabant.
Beowulf|R. W. Chambers

British Dictionary definitions for EAM

EAM

noun

(in World War II) the leftist resistance in German-occupied Greece

Word Origin for EAM

C20: from Modern Greek Ethniko Apeleutherotiko Metopo National Liberation Front

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