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fifth column
noun
: a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders
fifth columnist noun
Did you know?
Fifth column, a translation of the Spanish quinta columna, was inspired by a boast by rebel general Emilio Mola during the Spanish Civil War. Mola predicted Madrid would fall as four columns of rebel troops approaching the city were joined by another hidden column of sympathizers within it. In an October 1936 article in The New York Times, William Carney described those secret rebel supporters as the "fifth column," and English speakers seized upon the term. It gained widespread popularity after Ernest Hemingway used it in the title of a 1938 book, and it was often applied (along with derivative forms such as "fifth columnism" and "fifth columnist") to Nazi supporters within foreign nations during World War II.
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web And there are fears among the public of a Russian fifth column. 
William Nattrass, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 Palestinian citizens of Israel make up about 20% of the country’s population but are often seen as a fifth column and have never before been part of a coalition. Ilan Ben Zion, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2022 They for long have been viewed as a fifth column because of their solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022 This is the fifth column in a Heard on the Street series about the end of zero interest rates. Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022 Similarly, at home fellow Americans have been targeted as fifth column, gang member, super predator and Black identity extremist. Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who for years has suggested that Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, now urged reconciliation. Time, 27 May 2021 The letter peddles the old right-wing fantasy of a fifth column of rootless cosmopolitans disarming the country against its enemies, both internal and domestic. Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 2021 On the right, there is more bravado: calls to disarm Gaza, and to suppress Israeli Arabs as a fifth column. Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021 See More
William Nattrass, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 Palestinian citizens of Israel make up about 20% of the country’s population but are often seen as a fifth column and have never before been part of a coalition. Ilan Ben Zion, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2022 They for long have been viewed as a fifth column because of their solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022 This is the fifth column in a Heard on the Street series about the end of zero interest rates. Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022 Similarly, at home fellow Americans have been targeted as fifth column, gang member, super predator and Black identity extremist. Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2021 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who for years has suggested that Israeli Arabs are a fifth column, now urged reconciliation. Time, 27 May 2021 The letter peddles the old right-wing fantasy of a fifth column of rootless cosmopolitans disarming the country against its enemies, both internal and domestic. Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 2021 On the right, there is more bravado: calls to disarm Gaza, and to suppress Israeli Arabs as a fifth column. Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 21 May 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
name applied to rebel sympathizers in Madrid in 1936 when four rebel columns were advancing on the city
First Known Use
1936, in the meaning defined above
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