anti-fascist

adjective

an·​ti-fas·​cist ˌan-tē-ˈfa-shist How to pronounce anti-fascist (audio)
ˌan-tī-,
 also  -sist
variants or less commonly anti-Fascist or antifascist
: opposed to fascism
anti-fascist protesters
… the film suggests a counterculture version of the anti-fascist thrillers of the forties.The New Yorker
anti-fascist noun
or less commonly anti-Fascist or antifascist
Those few weeks turned me into a devout anti-fascist. Martha Gellhorn
anti-fascism
ˌan-tē-ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm How to pronounce anti-fascist (audio)
ˌan-tī-
 also  -ˈfa-ˌsi-
noun
or less commonly anti-Fascism or antifascism
They were united only by their anti-Fascism and their contempt for Badoglio and the King. Robert Katz

Examples of anti-fascist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web On March 6, an anti-fascist group forced a shutdown at Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg by setting a nearby electricity transmission tower on fire, cutting off power at the facility and nearby settlements. William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024 The center was started by Italy’s Union of Women, which is a left-leaning anti-fascist feminist group that opened the center to give women a lifeline. Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024 Here is a summer blockbuster whose characters vigorously discuss the importance of labor unions and anti-fascist organizing, arriving just as Hollywood's real-life unions are walking picket lines. Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 July 2023 Waters has strongly denied antisemitism, claiming that Israel is just one target of a broad, anti-fascist stage show. Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 31 Jan. 2024 In cities across Germany, anti-fascist demonstrators took to the streets, protesting against the country’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024 Dutch author Gerard Groeneveld, who published The Underwater Cabaret: The Satirical Resistance of Curt Bloch last year, tells the Times that the covers were inspired by other anti-fascist satirical magazines, like Germany’s Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Workers’ Illustrated Magazine). Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 Tuesday’s performance had the casual self-portraiture of a cabaret, the variety and depth of a solid DJ set and the unabashed anti-fascist spirit of a punk show. Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023 Now the worst people in Hollywood make films about the worst people in the world (those who pretend to be anti-fascist yet are fascist themselves). Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-fascist was in 1921

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“Anti-fascist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-fascist. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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