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Baath Party

Pronunciation: /bɑːθ/

(also Ba'ath Party)
Definition of Baath Party
  • a pan-Arab socialist party founded in Syria in 1943. Different factions of the Baath Party hold power in Syria and formerly held power in Iraq.

Derivatives

Baathism

noun

Baathist

adjective & noun

Origin:

Baath, from Arabic ba‘ṯ 'resurrection, renaissance'

Baath Party in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Baath Party in the US English dictionary