ETA

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ETA
    n 1: a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student
         activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate
         nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create
         an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in
         1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of
         government officials" [syn: {Basque Homeland and Freedom},
         {Basque Fatherland and Liberty}, {Euskadi ta Askatasuna},
         {ETA}]
    2: the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet